Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...back of his hand is San Francisco's Harry Lundeberg, a far-left-winger now boss of the A.F.L. Sailors Union of the Pacific. Not long ago, Lundeberg got a letter from William Z. Foster, chairman of the Communist Party, appealing for help in fighting the Mundt-Nixon bill (see The Capital). Tough, tattooed Harry Lundeberg last week punched out this reply...
...Communists are noisier than numerous. And they prefer, whenever possible, to have the shouting done for them by others and thus seem not only more respectable but larger than life. In Washington last week they gave a demonstration of this technique. Their target was the Mundt-Nixon bill...
Testifying on the Mundt-Nixon bill before the Senate Judiciary Committee last week, Communist Boss William Z. Foster was asked if U.S. Communists would fight against Russia. Said Foster: "If there is a war, the fault will lie not with the Soviet Union but with the Wall Street monopolists . . . We are not going to fight against the Soviet Union...
...bill was the Mundt-Nixon bill, introduced by South Dakota's Karl Mundt (who is now up for election as a Senator), and largely written by California's Richard M. Nixon, a lank, earnest Quaker attorney. It had come to the floor of the House from the Un-American Activities Committee...
...committee had tackled a troubling problem of political freedom: how to deal democratically with a group which is dedicated to the destruction of U.S. democracy. The Mundt-Nixon bill proposed an evasive solution. The bill, after labeling the Communist Party an alien conspiracy, did not outlaw the party. But it would...