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...when Majority Leader Knowland tried to postpone the final farm-bill vote, and when South Carolina's Olin Johnston tried to attach a civil-service pay raise to California's Santa Maria River project. But in the last minute helter-skelter, it was remarkable that the Communist outlaw bill (see below) was the only piece of political deviltry to be jammed into enactment...
...bill, some headline writers said, outlawed Reds. Others were of the opinion that it outlawed the Communist Party. There was some speculation about what "to outlaw" might mean. Did it mean, as some said, that the Communist Party and/or its members could not sign leases, have bank accounts or sue in court? This kind of outlawry, stripping away all legal protection, is a medieval notion, inconsistent with post-feudal legal concepts and beyond the constitutional power of Congress...
...Passed a bill to deny Red-led labor unions the NLRB's protection of their collective-bargaining rights. ¶Voted 85-0 to tack onto the Red-led union bill a rider designed to "outlaw" the Communist Party, a proposition opposed by Attorney General Brownell and FBI Director Hoover on the ground that it would drive Communists underground. This surprise move was sprung by Wayne Morse and two Democrats, Minnesota's Humphrey and Massachusetts' Kennedy, as a partisan response to McCarthyite charges that Democrats are soft on Communism. Michigan's Homer Ferguson pointed out that...
...Sawyer hurried home to Fort Smith, Ark. (pop. 47,942) and went to work, getting bills drawn up to outlaw this "national menace," thundering against it over his radio program. To get his point across, he played a tape-recorded "confession of a 13-year-old nudist girl." Nudist Norval Packwood, executive director of the American Sunbathing Association (with more than 15,000 members), wrote to Evangelist Sawyer and invited him to the A.S.A. national convention at Battle Creek, Mich, "to learn the real truth about nudism." Last week, as the nudists shucked their clothes at Battle Creek...
...Support of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to outlaw segregation in the public schools...