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It has been further argued that McCarthy's intentions were not directed toward gathering information, with an eye to possible legislation, presumably the proper function of a legislative investigative committee. In his discussion of Congressional investigations, Bath has commented, "the purpose of an inquiry seems the significant key to its...
This would have compelled private colleges to discharge teachers refusing to answer questions concerning their possible Communist affiliations. But before the House voted, it referred the measure to the Supreme Court. The adverse to the Supreme Court. The adverse opinion stifled Iannello and his associates--until the publication of names...
"Generally speaking", he writes, "a witness before a Congressional committee has the same duty to answer questions about other persons as about himself...Congress (or a state legislative body) is entitled to whatever information it reasonably needs to discharge its functions, and that may well include--whether the subject of...
Since February, the representatives had been trying to secure passage of legislation which would have forced all schools and colleges, both public and private, to discharge "Fifth Amendment Communists" and Communist sympathizers from their teaching staffs. Members of the group admitted that they were "out to get Harvard."
This listing of three of Harvard's teachers as past Communists was the only attack left open to state legislators when the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court declared unconstitutional the central clauses of a bill which would have compelled private colleges to discharge instructors refusing to answer questions concerning their Communist...