Word: dorgan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Repetition is good," Tom Dorgan explained to the Committee on Education. "You don't get it the first time, then you hear it again." His favorite refrain was: "I'll repeat that." "Until you believe it," he might have added...
...Dorgan and McCarthy were having a repeat performance in the State House. A month ago they aired a joint bill to outlaw the Communist Party in Massachusetts, in hearings before the Committee on Constitutional Law. Last week they were back again, before a new committee and audience, but with much the same speeches and gestures. Their new bill required colleges to expel all communists and communist sympathizers from their faculties. Colleges not complying would lose their charters...
...Neither Dorgan nor McCarthy could call themselves political philosophers, but they know what they hate. Earnestly, almost desperately, they want to go on record against Communism. In the process, with much table-pounding and references to the "hills of Korea," they never forgot the gallery. "Let them stay," McCarthy said expansively when the chairman reprimanded the audience for laughing. "When this bill is heard on the floor of the House, I'll rinse them all out in Supersuds." He described his audience at the last hearing. "You should have seen them, pretty little teen-aged girls, hissing everyone who spoke...
McCarthy spoke first. Dorgan began by repeating everything his colleague had said. He quoted an old ruling that: "All preceptors of the colleges, especially the university of Cambridge, gotta teach CHASTITY"--he paused, while some teen-aged girls tittered nervously--"morality, obedience--not love of Russia--and love of country...
Later he shouted: "I am not here to red-bait. I'm not here to witch-hunt. I'm not here to smear innocent persons." Who, then, was he there to smear? Dorgan was evasive. M.I.T.'s Dirk Struik? "Struik, they asked him if he was a Commie and he said, 'Of course not, but I'm a good Markist' (sic). And you all know what Karl Marx was. That's like saying, 'I'm not a thief but I'm a good pickpocket...