Word: eastlands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lunkhead." For its opening witness in three days of Washington hearings, the subcommittee, headed by Mississippi Democrat James O. Eastland, called slight, white-haired James Glaser, 56, a copyreader on the Fair-Dealing New York Post. Glaser said that he was a Communist when he worked on a copy desk of the Times, which he quit in 1934 to become managing editor of the Daily Worker at a 35% cut in salary. He told a vivid story of his buffeting in that job (see below). Two years later he worked up "the strength" to quit both the party...
...Senator Eastland complimented Editor Fine on his candor and praised him as "a fine citizen." But the newsman's appearance again provoked Senator Hennings into criticizing subcommittee colleagues. He objected "strenuously" that the group had put Fine on public display after his "full disclosures in executive session...
...their records neither Senator Eastland, nor his colleague Senator Jenner, inspire much confidence as objective and self-controlled investigators. Although it is still too early to see what course their present investigation will take, developments so far indicate that the senators are more bent on intimidating one newspaper, the New York Times, than on seriously appraising the extent of Communist infiltration of the press...
...York Times has set a standard which we hope will become the policy of any newspaper whose employees face the Eastland subcommittee. If, intentionally or not, the investigation intimidates one free newspaper more damage will have been done than a whole corps of Communist proofreaders could...
...cent of a group listed as "the most typical sponsors of Communist Front Organizations" by the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, headed by Senator James O. Eastland (D. Miss.), have some connection with the University...