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...House Un-American Activities Committee, headed by Rep. Harold Velde (R-Ill.). Both group had full subpoena power, both had sent large research staffs in the field for months before they called witnesses. Both confronted witness with large stores of information on Communist and front activity during the last fifteen years. In almost every state in the union, state legislative committees had started or were preparing similar investigations...
...rowing water. The coaches and coxswains were never familiarized with the course until race day. There were no markers set up beyond the finish line for the coxes to aim at and the lanes were never marked. As a result, with a course big enough to accommodate ten or fifteen crews abreast, the six shells racing each other wandered all over the course...
...obtain a visa, an applicant must list this associations for the last fifteen years, often explain his political views and detail his opinions on issued like Korea. The answers are often unacceptable to the U.S. Security officers, but any softening of personal beliefs whether by way of soft soap or of an honest attempt to state his beliefs fully is considered perjury...
...Riviere liked the place and set just one condition. "The occupant must get out within fifteen days." Impossible, replied the agent: French law prevents cursory eviction of tenants; besides, the owner is a kindhearted man. Riviere was adamant; finally the agent arranged to move the poor Dupuis family to a vacant store and pay their rent. M. Riviere paid the purchase price, spent another estimated $86,000 rebuilding the main house...
...rule has taught many Negroes that the Hall is an exclusive place. Two time loser Hazel Scott, colored wife of Representative Powell, found that the Daughters didn't like her kind of singing. While few negroes have similarly tried twice, the Hall has been forbidden ground to over fifteen colored entertainers in the last five years, and just to prove that they do not discriminate only against the entertainment industry, the Daughters ejected an Ethiopian Minister in the middle of a scientific convention. Marian Anderson, the first celebrity to meet Constitution Hall's closed doors, was also the first...