Word: membership
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dean Acheson, onetime Under Secretary of the Treasury, appeared for him and heard an assortment of minor patriots condemn his client as a Red, a Jew, an alien. One condemner was rich, blonde Mrs. Elizabeth (The Red Network) Dilling of Chicago, who based her Frankfurterphobia largely on his long membership in the American Civil Liberties Union (which once defended her right to attack the New Deal on the radio...
...insists that this is not reason enough for half-pay. Last week A. F. R. A., having failed for a year to negotiate minimums of $15 a 15-minute program, $6 for the first rehearsal hour and $3 for each half-hour thereafter, put the case before its entire membership...
...medal from the Southern Conference for Human Welfare last November, he phoned Low Mellett to ascertain if public reaction would be favorable. This week Congressman Bruce Barton, Manhattan adman who knows a pressagent when he sees one, introduced a bill to abolish the whole NEC, charging "Its distinguished membership is only a front for a band of 290 pressagents...
...members of the Commitee signed the report immediately except Sen. Pat. McCarran, D., Nev., who asked Frankfurter pointedly whether he subscribes to the doctrines of Marxism and questioned him about his membership in the American Civil Liberties Union...
Frankfurter appeared personally after two days of hearings in which witnesses assailed his political and social ideologies, cast doubt on his citizenship, questioned his membership in the Civil Liberties Union and his activities in the Tom Mooney band Sacco-Vanzetti cases, and raised the racial issue...