Word: hunted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...month investigation of un-American activities. Boiled down out of some 7,000 pages of testimony (3.773,600 words) taken from 205 witnesses, it was a document that no radical could have expected from the Dies Committee. Loudly critics have cried that Martin Dies was leading a witch hunt, that he was emulating A. Mitchell Palmer, that he was a Fascist, that he relied on hearsay and innuendo and accused individuals of Communist activities without giving them a chance to reply. As the parade of disgruntled ex-Communists to the witness stand continued, and as Chairman Dies muttered darkly about...
...month investigation of un-American activities. Boiled down out of some 7,000 pages of testimony (3,773,600 words) taken from 205 witnesses, it was a document that no radical could have expected from the Dies Committee. Loudly critics have cried that Martin Dies was leading a witch hunt, that he was emulating A. Mitchell Palmer, that he was a Fascist, that he relied on hearsay and innuendo and accused individuals of Communist activities without giving them a chance to reply. As the parade of disgruntled ex-Communists to the witness stand continued, and as Chairman Dies muttered darkly...
...keenest, most widespread quotation hunt in the history of a nation of ardent quotation pullers and hunters raged last week all over the British Empire. King George started it by winding up his globe-circling Christmas Day broadcast to his peoples thus...
...hunt narrowed down when an anonymous telephone call to the British Broadcasting Corp. put the finger on a Miss Minnie L. Haskins. Every effort was promptly made to get in touch with Minnie, for by this time BBC officials were being harried by an avalanche of queries from baffled quotation hunters who included such savants as Harold Idris Bell, Keeper of Manuscripts at the British Museum, and the Very Reverend Walter Robert Matthews, Dean of St. Paul...