Word: kerrs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...document the latter charge, Mr. Ickes pointed out that the House (Kerr) subcommittee which originated the rider ousting and besmirching the three officials had: 1) examined Mr. Lovett in secret session, for only two hours, on only one day's notice; 2) supplied him with no advance specification of the charges to be brought against him; 3) not permitted him to bring counsel, or to summon witnesses in his behalf; 4) provided neither him, nor the Interior Department, nor the Congress with a transcript...
...Gentlemen," he cried, "that a committee of this Congress should undertake to discharge from Government employment a loyal American citizen on the basis of two statements, one by a woman under Federal indictment for sedition, and the other by a Fascist sympathizer." He proceeded to point out that the Kerr committee's lists of "subversive" organizations with which Mr. Lovett was accused of associating were identical with lists which appeared in the neurotic Mrs. Elizabeth Dilling's The Red Network, and in the Dies Committee testimony of one Walter S. Steele of the Christian American Crusade...
...quickly as the Poles appealed to the Red Cross, the Russians lashed at the Poles. At week's end Ambassador Tadeusz Romer left Moscow for Kuibyshev en route to Teheran. U.S. Ambassador William H. Standley saw him off. British Ambassador Sir Archibald Clark Kerr gave him a bottle of Scotch. Then they turned to seeking a settlement that would patch up the break for the duration. On the urgency and merits of this issue, the U.S. State Department and No. 10 Downing Street were in complete accord: nothing must be allowed to create a final schism between Russia...
Also, everywhere, on Franklin Roosevelt's second secret inspection trip of World War II, were politicians and Governors: South Carolina's Olin D. Johnston, Georgia's Ellis Arnall, Alabama's Chauncey Sparks, Tennessee's Prentice Cooper, Arkansas' Homer Adkins, Oklahoma's Robert Kerr...
...Archibald Clark Kerr, British Ambassador to Russia, gave an official version of Anglo-Russian relations. He emphasized in a speech broadcast to Europe that Germany was again "flaunting the Red peril." He said that there was a "deepseated wish, or more, a determination to work with the Russians in peace and in the war" that German propagandists could not shake. "Let them reflect for a moment," he said, "upon the common man in Britain and Russia and China, on his way of life ... a spontaneous revolt against anything for which the Fascists stand...