Word: huac
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is a "very real possibility that HUAC will soon begin to move on peace groups," Michael S. Ansara '68, secretary of Students for a Democratic Society, said last night...
According to Howe, it was the sense of the group that "the investigating operations of the House Un-American Activities Committee should be upset." He noted that the absence of any restrictions in the HUAC charter enables the committee to study "all un-American propaganda--whatever that may be" and leads to what he termed an "exuberantly irresponsible manner of investigation...
...professors felt, Howe said, that the activities of HUAC were so objectionable that even the seven Ku Klux Klansmen cited for contempt by Congress last week should not have to submit to what he called "Congressional harassment." Robert M. Shelton, the Imperial Wizard of the United Klans of America, Inc., and six of his associates had refused to answer questions on the activities of the Klan...
...professors feel that any direct action to abolish HUAC would have to come from within the House itself, but what they hope to do is to cause enough protest within the House to make the Committee feel that its procedures are being watched...
...refusal to cite the three would represent the first time that Congress has not acted in accord with HUAC proposals to cite for contempt, Howe said. A possibility, which Howe called remote, is that Congress might refer the Chicago affair to the House Judiciary Committee...