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...sounded knowledgeable. When Harold Stassen cornered him in their radio debate, he handled Stassen with aplomb. Most Oregonians thought that Dewey won their argument, agreed with him that any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party was folly...
...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...
Last week, the National Labor Relations Board closed the Taft-Hartley door with a bang. In a 3-2 decision it ruled that jt will no longer hold union shop elections in states which outlaw it. Such NLRB elections, the majority decided, "would lead only to the circumvention and frustration of State law." For labor leaders who rely on the union shop device to control and hold their memberships, it was a hard blow...
...stake in Hollywood, biggest of any cinemogul. In addition to buying control of RKO, he has spent about $2,400,000 for his completed but unreleased picture, Mad Wednesday, another $3,000,000 for Vendetta, still unfinished. And he still has $1,750,000 tied up in The Outlaw. With RKO's chain of 124 houses, Hughes will now have an outlet for his movies, at least until the antitrust suit against moviemakers is settled...
...Dewey's speeches followed a familiar pattern. He concentrated on belaboring "this incredible Administration of ours," on warning: "Let's be sure we spend our money like hard-headed Americans instead of soft-headed saps." Time & again he thwacked Harold Stassen's ill-considered plan to outlaw the Communist Party. Such "glib proposals" and "easy panaceas," he cried, were "nothing but the methods of Hitler and Stalin ... It is thought control borrowed from the Japanese." He rode the theme so hard that the Portland Oregonian was finally aroused to a tut-tutting editorial...