Word: huac
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Charging that HUAC "serves as an instrument of segregation" and "is inconsonant with the ideals of the First Amendment," the petition asks the House of Representatives to refuse to continue HUAC as a standing committee when it convenes in January...
Charging that the committee "serves no useful purpose" and is "irreconcilable with a system of free expression in this country," the professors have sent a petition to members of the new Congress urging them to refuse to continue HUAC as a standing committee when they convene in January...
...petition accuses HUAC of attempting to "create in the legislative branch a permanent institution....designed to serve as a bureaucratic Big Brother to censor the opinions and associations of American citizens...
...telephone interview last night, Howe said that he was "extremely hopeful" that HUAC would be abolished. "The time has come," he said, "for Congress to face up to the question of whether the committee serves any useful purpose. If it ever had a function, that time has long since passed...
...same demands voiced by the FNP, and sets forth a program appropriate for a Labor Party. Planks in this platform include: 1) an end to both military build-up at home and Vietnam-type adventurism abroad; 2) a militantly anti-racist government policy; 3) an end to HUAC and all it stands for; 4) 30 hour work week, with 40 hours' pay to end unemployment; 5) a government-guaranteed college education for all youth; 6) No taxes on incomes under $7500; 7) nationalize banks, basic industries, all natural resources; institution of a planned economy, planned for human betterment, not individual...