Word: goldmarks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...publication widely distributed to voters, Albert F. Canwell, 57, a former state representative and now a freelance investigator of Communism, identified Sally Goldmark as a Communist and the A.C.L.U. as a Communist front...
...Goldmark ran fourth in a field of five in the Democratic primary that September. Just two weeks later he and his wife filed suit against Canwell and against Holden and his paper, along with a couple of local John Birchers who had joined the campaign against them...
...Case. In court, the defendants went all out to amplify their campaign charges against the Goldmarks. "We will show evidence which will convince you that Sally Goldmark never got out of the Communist Party," said Defense Attorney E. Glenn Harmon. The defendants tried to show that the Goldmark marriage itself was dictated by the Communist Party...
...drama reached a climax of sorts when white-haired Defense Attorney Joseph Wicks in his closing plea quoted the First Commandment in ringing tones, then stared at the Goldmarks to demand, "Would a Communist say there is no other God? What is God to an atheistic Communist?" Mrs. Goldmark, tears streaming down her face, rushed out of the crowded courtroom...
When their turn came, the Goldmarks' lawyers maintained that the kind of charges made by the defendants could "drive from office every decent man who ever sought it." Attorney William Dwyer found the defense "one long tortured attack against Mrs. Goldmark. They've said every conceivable dirty thing about that woman they could say without being held in contempt of court...