Word: dorgan
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last Wednesday at 10:00 o'clock in the morning, Room 480 in the State House was mobbed. This was the place where the Committee on Constitutional Law held its hearing on House Bill 426, the Dorgan-McCarthy hardy perennial to outlaw the Communist Party in Massachusetts...
Then organizer McCarthy quickly introduced the "Paul Revere of the fight against Communism," co-author Thomas H. Dorgan. "The Founding Fathers never anticipated an international conspiracy," announced Dorgan, "and Communism is an international conspiracy." "We know that," said the Chairman, vainly trying to get back on the subject, "but how can we stop it?" On this the committee men started wrangling among themselves...
...gavel banged, and Dorgan started reading a book on America written by a priest. When a committee member suggested that present sedition laws were more effective than 11. 426, Dorgan waited with exaggerated patience and then, at the same point where he left off and in the same tone of voice, began reading anew...
...Dorgan also accused Arthur M. Schle singer, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History, of failing to "fight the Reds." Schlesinger, Dorgan contended, once stated the only way to battle communism is to "sell our ideas to the Communists." Dorgan claimed Schlesinger has "been doing nothing" in this "battle against communism...
During the noisy and disorderly hearing, Dorgan said President Conant favors the 18-year-old draft "for soldiers to fight in Kores against the Communists, but he refuses to remove Communists from his teaching staff...