Word: hunted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hearings, Senator Copeland has heard from the Secretary of Labor Perkins and her enemy, Joe Kennedy (see p. 77), has heard the proposals roundly condemned by labor-men who fear restrictive legislation. But Dr. Copeland has succeeded best of all in turning his hearings into a rousing Red hunt. Indeed, he got so far afield that last fortnight his Committee voted out a resolution asking a special $50,000 Senate investigation of Reds on everything afloat, "merchant marine, Coast Guard, Marines and Navy...
...chief quarry of Senator Copeland's hunt was one specific "Red": Harry Bridges, the Australian-born leader of Pacific Coast longshoremen. Harry Bridges' papers are in good order but like any alien he may be deported if he advocates overthrow of the Government by force. Therefore, Senator Copeland set out to prove he was a militant member of the Communist Party. Though most labor observers believe Bridges hews close to the Communist Party line, he denies being a party member. Dr. Copeland claims, however, that Mr. Bridges is in fact a member under the name...
...biology. To help with the rescue, the semirigid dirigible V6 started out from Moscow. To Leningrad and beyond, the flight was uneventful. In the mountainous Kandalaksha region near the White Sea, a heavy snowstorm enveloped the airship. Radio communication stopped. Searching parties found the wreckage after a 24-hour hunt. Thirteen of the crew, including the commander, were dead. Three of six survivors were injured...
...professional youngsters for parts like Tom Sawyer. But Producer David O. Selznick has no child stars on his own roster, and had no wish to borrow and boost one under contract to someone else. When he put Tom Sawyer on his schedule two years ago, he started a nationwide hunt that viewed 25,000 children before it ran to earth in St. Raymond's Parochial School in New York's Bronx. There a year ago Scout Oscar Serlin spotted curly-headed, freckled Tommy Kelly, an Irish lad of twelve, with an angelic face and mischievous eyes...
...AMERICAN-Frazier Hunt- Simon & Schuster ($3). Latest addition to the crop of newspapermen's reminiscences, containing somewhat stereotyped portraits of many of the world's great, somewhat stereotyped editorial philosophizing about current affairs ("So America marched toward the horizon of her doom") but revealing a warm, unaffected personality emerging from its clusters of cliches...