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...been raised still louder by Congressman Martin Dies's Committee on UnAmerican Activities, whose chairman claims that Bridges is a Communist. Secretary Perkins says she is awaiting a Supreme Court ruling on whether Communism provides ground for deportation.* With impatient Chairman Dies even threatening to impeach her unless she acts, Secretary Perkins still refuses to be hurried. Meantime, Los Angeles' Superior Court last week found harried Harry Bridges guilty of another offense-trying to influence it in a labor dispute by releasing a telegram to Secretary Perkins threatening a strike if his union lost the case-fined...
...torrent of talk began with the two months of "masterful turbulence" that accompanied the attempt to impeach Johnson. When the Democrats gained power after the towering scandals of the Grant administration, Elaine baited Southern Democrats so skillfully that he soon had them roaring Confederate defiance, effectively distracting Northern attention from the Whiskey Ring...
...Flint sit-downers to evacuate the two local Fisher Body plants, they hooted down the sheriff who tried to read it to them. Last week General Martin scored by asserting that Judge Black owned 3,665 shares of G. M. stock worth $219,900, petitioning the Michigan Legislature to impeach him for violation of a State law forbidding a judge to sit in any case "in which he is a party or in which he is interested." Judge Black admitted ownership of the stock, assailed the union leaders as "irresponsibles.'" The county bar association denounced Homer Martin...
...still more cock-a-hoop when a petition to impeach the President was signed by 118 Congressmen and 75,000 peasants surged into Havana, cheering Batista wildly, jeering the President and warming up toward Revolution...
Died. Louis T. McFadden, 60, longtime (1915-35) Republican Representative from Pennsylvania who twice moved to impeach President Hoover for declaring the 1932 War debt moratorium; of coronary thrombosis; in Manhattan...