Word: huac
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...House Un-American Activities Committee nearly eluded its critics in the Congress recently with a maneuver that seemed suspiciously secretive for so patriotic a body. Hoping to catch anti-HUAC speakers unprepared, the House leadership rushed a $300,000 authorization for the investigating group to the floor just one hour after it had been approved by the Committee on House Administration. The measure passed, but not until Representatves Burton (D-Calif.), Ryan (D-N.Y.), and Farbstein (D-N.Y.) had chided it liberally...
...last few sessions of Congress, HUAC has accumulated a growing number of vociferous enemies who charge that it is wasteful as well as dangerously reactionary. The Committee has managed to pass only three laws in twenty-six years. In 1963 only twenty-six bills were referred to it. Its 61-member staff is the third largest among House committees...
Opponents of HUAC deserve a chance to debate not only the Committee's dubious activities, but also the economy of its operation. If HUAC uses tricks to avoid its critics, it will only convince more Congressmen that it should be abolished...
...trying to do in the 50's. The idea of making other people concerned about political issues appealed, in general, to people who were fairly liberal. The liberals in addition seem to work harder at NSA conferences to influence the great mass of uncommitted delegates. During the great HUAC debate at the 14th Congress two years ago, there were so few conservative speakers that some had to talk twice. The liberals, as is their wont, elbowed each other for the microphone...
...former personal aide to General MacArthur asserted that he has become increasingly disturbed by the evidence of communist conspiracy in "high places" and in incidents such as the San Francisco student riots over HUAC and the Oxford, Miss., race riots...