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Congressmen Samuel Dickstein, from Manhattan's lower East Side, and John W. McCormack, from South Boston, picked up the fantastic story and summoned the doughty warrior from his home at Newtown Square, Pa., to a closed hearing of the Un-American Activities Committee...
Thanking their stars for having such sure-fire publicity dropped in their laps, Representatives McCormack & Dickstein began calling witnesses to expose the "plot." But there did not seem to be any plotters...
Though most of the country was again laughing at the latest Butler story, the special House Committee declined to join in the merriment. Turning from the Fascist putsch yarn to investigate Communism among New York fur workers, Congressman Dickstein promised Commander Van Zandt a later hearing in Washington. "From present indications," said the publicity-loving New York Representative, "General Butler has the evidence. He's not making serious charges unless he has something to back them up. We will have some men here with bigger names than Butler's before this is over...
...Foulois as chief of the Army Air Corps, reopened the question of Assistant Secretary Harry Woodring's Army contracts. Senator Pope of Idaho announced that investigators for the Munitions Committee were discovering ''shocking" evidence, which would come out when its public hearings start in September. Representative Dickstein's Nazi hunt and Senator Black's year-old investigation of ocean and air mails were simmering at summer heat. All told, the 3rd Congress had promised its members 23 investigations and provided $655,500 to last until January. Inquisitions afoot...
Four House Democrats and three Republicans conducted the investigation, chairmanned by Democrat John W. Mc-Cormack of South Boston, precipitated by the anti-Nazi outcries of Democrat Samuel Dickstein of Manhattan. For counsel the committee retained Thomas William Hardwick, onetime (1914-19) Senator, onetime (1921-23) Governor of Georgia. A fat-faced, roly-poly little man in horn-rimmed spectacles, he rustled papers between nicotine-stained fingers, showed none of Ferdinand Pecora's mental agility in driving witnesses into tight corners. Counsel Hardwick had great difficulty pronouncing "swastika," finally compromised on "swat-sicka." For three full days...