Word: eastlands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only with apprehension and some alarm can the American press view the current activities of Senator Eastland's Internal Security Subcommittee. No properly conducted investigation of Communist infiltration of newspapers is objectionable; but the present inquiry shows signs of becoming a fear-breeding witch hunt, and that in an area where freedom of thought and expression is most valuable...
...legislators, Congressman John Bell Williams and Governor Hugh White. They were well-dressed people of the sort found at Rotary meetings or dancing at the country club. This was the first statewide meeting of the Mississippi Association of Citizens' Councils. They were addressed by U.S. Senator James Oliver Eastland. His subject: school desegregation. Said...
...added that he felt continued investigation of the spread of communism in education was necessary and that he had "every confidence in the former Jenner Committee, now the Eastland Committee, which is making a new start in this field...
...week's end Senator Eastland recessed his hearings, with words of praise for the "cooperation" of the newsmen. The New York Newspaper Guild then got into the act, announced that it will fight for the reinstatement of Gordon and Barnet. The-Guild will go along with newspapers that fire staffers who are-or have been-Communists within six months of being questioned by a legislative committee. But it contended that the Times and News could not, under their contracts with the Guild, discharge staffers for pleading the Fifth Amendment, thus "exercising a constitutional right...
...Senator Eastland mentioned that a Communist-assigned bodyguard was staying with Matusow almost every night. "With whom," he asked, "did you spend the other nights?" "It was a lady friend," replied Matusow. He refused to name her, not out of gallantry alone but because "if you force me to tell. I'll never be able to return there." It was "no lady," shouted Eastland, but "a Communist bodyguard." Matusow insisted that it was a lady. "I did," he snapped, "play chess with a lady on Thursday night...