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...words of this old Wobbly song were recited last week in Moscow's Hall of Columns, where the body of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn lay in state. Chairman of the feeble U.S. Communist Party, she is the third foreign Red leader to die in the Soviet Union in the last two months, being preceded by France's Maurice Thorez and Italy's Palmiro Togliatti...
...even applies for one, is guilty of a felony and punishable by a maximum $10,000 fine and five years in prison. In early 1962, several months after Section 6 became law, the State Department revoked the passports of leading American Communists, including those of Party Chairman Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, 74, and Herbert Aptheker, 48, editor of the Communist monthly Political Affairs. Miss Flynn and Aptheker sued the State Department, charging an unconstitutional deprivation of their rights. After a federal district court upheld State's action, they appealed to the Supreme Court...
...escaped from on a weekend, Gunther has a lot to cover. Or to look at it another way, he has endless opportunities to quote from other Hollow Worlders whose subjects are more specialized. His book is, in fact, an anthology of the maxims of Russell Lynes, David Riesman, Helen Gurley Brown, Vance Packard, Betty Friedan and William H. Whyte...
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, who "would be chairman of the American Communist Party if the McCarran Act permitted it to have officers," held forth like a queen for almost two hours. She reminisced about her lifelong fight for a socialist America "in the plain simple language of the workers--no Madison Avenue terms; the bosses aren't the establishment...
...hall are the offices of HUAC's investigators. One office has a large wall map of the United States. Red pins in the map show the location of Communist Party headquarters. A large illustrated chart of the American CP hangs in another office. The rather grandmotherly face of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, chairman of the Party, occupies the center of the top row of this chart. She is surrounded by the faces of other Party higher-ups, most of whom look surly...