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Even if the petition had been presented by an organization which did not represent a democratic process in action, the incident would have been unfortunate. It was doubly unfortunate in that McMichael represented a view that had been decided on by a majority of the Youth delegation in an orderly election. Although the "opposition brief" was eventually accepted by the Senate Committee and made a part of its records, the ejection of the Youth Congress representative is a disgraceful travesty on the democratic spirit which is supposed to prevail at the open hearings on the Lend-Lease bill...
...banker, lawyer, substantial businessman. A straw vote of conventioneers gave Willkie 974 votes, Roosevelt 560, Norman Thomas six. But well attended were the meetings of the pinko Church League for Industrial Democracy. Among its speakers were C. I. O. President John L. Lewis, American Youth Congress Chairman Jack McMichael (a lusty young radical now preparing for the ministry at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary), Director Roger Baldwin of the American Civil Liberties Union...
Speakers on tonight's program scheduled in Emerson D at 8 o'clock include: Jack McMichael, chairman of the American Youth Congress--Lake Geneva; Thomas MacGowan, New England chief of the Maritime Union; Nathaniel Brooks, one of the students expelled from Michigan for being a "disturbing influence"; Francis O. Matthiessen, President of the Cambridge Teachers' Union; and Leo Marx, editor of the Progressive...
...Jack McMichael, National Chairman of A. Y. C., got up to speak. He rambled along about the New Deal, about the Ku Klux Klan. When he started deriding the Dies Committee...
...Shut up. Sit down! Boo!" roared the assembled youth. Chairman Ennes had Mr. McArthur tossed out. Speaker McMichael went...