Word: misses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Miss) CURTIS WAGER-SMITH Willow Grove...
...stand voluntarily to answer the impeachment charges brought against her by Republican Representative Thomas of New Jersey (TIME, Feb. 6). Failure to deport C. I. O.'s Harry Bridges as an alien Communist was her crime. Dressed in matronly black, with a large white bow across her bosom, Miss Perkins read to the House Judiciary Committee a lawyer-like statement explaining: "I am certainly in favor of the punishment or deportation of any one who engages in [treasonable] conduct. . . . I also wish to emphasize that I am not in accord with the principles of the Communist Party...
Chances of impeachment proceedings being voted against Miss Perkins: zero...
...arguments, for in attacking Radical Joe Strecker, able Robert Houghwout Jackson was clearing the name of Frances Perkins, against whom rested impeachment charges based on her alleged mollycoddling of an even more famed alien radical, Australia's and California's Harry Bridges. Two days after Miss Perkins told a House committee what an honest, patriotic woman and public official she really is (see p. 10), Mr. Jackson told the Supreme Court that, in Madam Secretary Perkins' opinion, Alien Strecker is a lecherous, insidious, incendiary character who ought to be deported...
This characterization, so curiously opposite to Congressman Dies's picture of Miss Perkins, Solicitor-General Jackson last week sought to erase. He was arguing her appeal against Judge Hutcheson's ruling. After dragging in Joe Strecker's "four women," he attacked the Communist policy† which Joe had embraced as a "Trojan horse" policy for capturing the U. S. He asked the Court to read current Communist references to "revolution" not "in the light of prophecy" but as active, ominous, highly contemporary. Joe Strecker's failure to pay further Communist dues was no defense, argued...