Word: flynn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...John T. Flynn, writer-economist and critic of the past Democratic administrations, challenged President Conant's appointment as German High Commissioner yesterday before a closed hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee...
Senate majority leader Robert A. Taft remarked that Flynn "made a good case" against the selection. He added, however, that the committee, in all probability would approve Conant's nomination...
Committee chairman Alexander Wiley (R.-Wis.) reported that Flynn based his opposition on five issues: Conant's alleged support of a "dismantle German industry" plan, his advocacy of a radical party in 1943, laxity toward possible subversives at Harvard, probable poor reception of Conant in Germany, and Conant's attack on private schools as "divisive...
...defendants in the ten-month trial were second-drawer leaders of the U.S. Communist Party, including Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, member of the party's national committee; Alexander Trachtenberg and Alexander Bittelman, Russian-born party theoreticians; Pettis Perry, one of U.S. Communism's chief apostles to Harlem. They were the fourth batch of J.S. Reds to be convicted under the 1940 Smith Act. First came the 1949 marathon trial of eleven top Communist leaders that made Judge Harold Medina famous. In 1952, six lesser Red lights were convicted in Baltimore, 14 in Los Angeles. Last week upholding the Smith...
...There are many advantages to using union help which the Pudding is sorry to lose," Flynn said. "Most theatres are unionized, and refuse to book shows which...