Word: huac
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...group will examine the efficiency of University operations and look into an alternative system for establishing room rents. Many HUAC members noted that there is "very little consistency" in the current system...
Outside Walter's window the visitor can see workers constructing a huge new House Office Building. A pleased Walter says HUAC will be moving there in a few years...
Behind the secretaries there is a smaller room containing HUAC's million-name file of American Communists. The counsel explains that the file can only be opened by the F.B.I. and other "competent researchers." The general public is denied access to its contents. As the visitor enters, a Committee employee, who was looking through a file drawer, quickly closes it. Atop one bank of filing cabinets are placed all the Committee's publications since its inception in 1938. The row extends nearly five feet. The counsel says with pride that this literature contains the heart of HUAC's work...
Down the 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...
Although it is not strictly part of the HUAC's quarters, the office of Committee chairman Francis E. Walter (D-Pa.) is located close by. Its walls attest to Walter's role in HUAC and his immense power. Pictures of Roosevelt, Truman, and Kennedy hang behind his desk. A wall-full of framed cartoons--many of them critical--comment on the HUAC. They picture Walter as nearly everything from Smearer of Innocents to gallant knight...