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Only Ronald Brown, as Gitlow Judson, avoids the pervasive half-hearted mugging and posturing. Judson, Purlie's feisty brother-in-law, retains influence over Ol' Cap'n by posing as the stereotypical obsequious cotton-picker. Brown swaggers and staggers through the play's increasingly disjointed action with true comic aplomb, bawling "There's More Than One Way of Skinnin' a Cat" with reckless disregard for his tone-deafness, and applying his sense of dramatic timing to the moments that his cohorts largely let slip...
Died. Benjamin Gitlow, 73, organizer and onetime general secretary of the U.S. Communist Party, who was summarily read out of the movement in 1929 after rejecting Stalin's demand for greater subservience of the U.S. party to the Soviet Union, thereupon wrote a detailed expose of Red activities in the U.S., became a star witness of the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1953, was widely criticized for falsely accusing others of Communist complicity, later drifted into obscurity; of a heart attack; in Crompond...
Canwell imported the same group of witnesses that had been used at almost all other investigations of un-American activities. These witnesses included J. B. Matthews, former investigator for the Dies Committee, a Hearst journalist and the list of "reformed Communists" such as Benjamin Gitlow and George Hewitt. During the course of the committee hearings not only were members of the Washington faculty accused but such other figures as J. Robert Oppenheimer of the Princeton Institute of advanced study, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. '38, of Harvard, and General Dwight D. Eisenhower, were mentioned as men who "fronted" for Communists...
Some of the facts in this book have already been revealed in ex-Communist confessionals like Benjamin Gitlow's I Confess (TIME, Jan. 22, 1940). Many were dug up by the Dies Committee. The Red Decade synchronizes them and for the first time brings them into orderly perspective...
Among the Fund's directors were William Z. Foster (then secretly a Communist), Benjamin Gitlow (then a Communist tycoon ), Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (I.W.W.), the Reverend Harry Ward (Union Theological Seminary), Robert Morss Lovett (now Government secretary of the Virgin Islands). Though the Garland Fund threw money right & left (mostly left), instead of being depleted, it grew. (It held First National Bank of the City of New York stock during the '20s.) Sixteen years after Charles Garland decided to give away his million, the Fund was close to $2,500,000. Some of this paper profit was wiped...