Word: headful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Temporary Chairman of the committee is Dr. W.A. Higinbotham, head of Brook have National Laboratory and vice chairman of the Federation of American Scientists. Members include Princeton professor Albert Eastein and Stanley Livingston of M.I.T...
...home-town Hitlers Dies produced for scrutiny scarcely answered his critics. The chairman got hold of George Deatherage, head of a tiny group known as the Knights of the White Camelia. Deatherage regaled the committee with his ideas concerning the need for booting radicals and Jews out of the country. He proudly claimed membership in an international anti-Communist organization which had headquarters in Rome but admitted that the German consul in this country had refused his requests for aid. The Nazis knew a small-time operator when they saw one, even if Martin Dies didn...
...order to obtain the ultra-sophistication required of a high fashion model, the judges had each entrant parade with a book upon her head. It was Gilson's "The Spirit of Medieval Philosophy...
...drops George Washington abruptly, goes downstairs into the newsroom to pick up notes on the latest news, then crosses a catwalk to a studio in radio station WRNL (owned by the Richmond newspapers). Frequently the announcer is hopefully saying, "And now Dr. Freeman," just as he sticks his head in the door...
...Martin Dies--not Dickstein--who was picked to head the new committee. The gentleman from Texas, who coyly termed himself "president of the House Demagogues Club," assumed his responsibilities in no uncertain fashion. During the next seven years, he kept himself splattered over the front pages, got into ruckuses with everybody from Walter Winchell to Mrs. Roosevelt, and set a pattern of conduct followed faithfully by his successors...