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The committee's annual report to the House for 1943 was termed by Voorhis as only the personal report of the Chairman. There was no meeting held to discuss it Voorhis said. "It was presented to members on a 'take-it-or-leave-it' basis." And every time Dies tried...
But assaults from within and without the un-American fortress failed to curb the spirits of Dies or J. Parnell Thomas. While Dies took on the brunt of the opposition, Thomas counter-attacked vigorously. His main target was the Administration. In 1939, he urged Wall Street brokers to lobby for...
One of the Chairman Dies' continual peeves was the fact that this same suspect New Deal was hostile to his committee. His relations with the Department of Justice and Attorney-General Biddle were particularly strained. Just before Pearl Harbor, Dies sent Biddle a list of 1,124 federal employees alleged...
It was his contention that the forces of New Dealism were gathering ominously to prevent him from being re-elected--thereby undermining the whole system of parliamentary government. When the CIO Political Action Committee was formed in early 1944, he sought in vain to connect it with the Administration. The...
Rankin was also at odds with the government. Not content with mere New Dealers, he jumped on Secretary of War Stimson, crying that Communists had been allowed to obtain commissions in the Army. He demanded Stimson's resignation, and put up the name of General George Patton for the job...