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Under the McCarran Act of 1950, organizations which are labeled "communist-action" or "communist front" groups are required to register with the Attorney General. Upon request of the Attorney General, the SACB determines whether an organization is such a group and whether individuals are members of any groups so labeled...
...urging students to attend the hearings "to call attention to the need for repeal of the McCarran Act," Kotz said
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, who "would be chairman of the American Communist Party if the McCarran Act permitted it to have officers," held forth like a queen for almost two hours. She reminisced about her lifelong fight for a socialist America "in the plain simple language of the workers--no Madison Avenue terms; the bosses aren't the establishment...
...American Communist Party is not the agent of any foreign power, Miss Flynn maintained. Its link with the Soviet Union is stated only in the McCarran Act, she said, and this link is based merely on findings of the House Un-American Activities Committee. "There has never even been the slightest attempt to prove the link legally," she insisted; "if we agree on something, it doesn't mean we are taking orders...
...endlessly involved in social action, partly because of the Quaker influence that still has the campus telephone operator say "Thank thee." Almost conventionally liberal, Swarthmore sent an ambulance to Loyalist Spain in the 1930s, began deliberately recruiting Negro students in the early 1940s. Swarthmoreans analyze disarmament, criticize the McCarran Act, lead civil rights demonstrations, from Chester, Pa., to Cambridge, Md. Last fall 60 student pickets got arrested in Chester...