Word: owsley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before the trial opened, Girard's Army defense counsel said: "The boy is getting skinny. This thing is so hard on him that he has become a nervous wreck." Fresh from a visit with the defendant, the American Legion's Observer Alvin M. Owsley burbled: "There is something sweet about this youth. He does not stand alone. He is part of America...
...Reds are moving in upon us," warned Colonel Alvin Mansfield Owsley, 67, a past national commander of the American Legion (1922-23), who accused the four painters of being Communist sympathizers. "Let us hold together . . . Let those who would plant a red picture supplant it with the red, white and blue. White for purity, blue for fidelity, as blue as our Texas bluebonnets...
Speaking for 16 Dallas societies, banded together as the Dallas County Patriotic Council, Owsley demanded that the museum reimpose the ban it had temporarily clamped down on art by Communists or suspected Communists after a similar ruckus last year (TIME, May 2). But this time the museum held fast. It also got the backing of the Dallas Morning News ("The issue is not the allegiance or sympathies of the artists over a period of years, but actually one of censorship") and Dallas Merchant Stanley Marcus, who refused to withdraw as a local sponsor of the show...
...attempt to go over the museum's head was stalled by the Dallas park board, which passes on city funds for maintenance of the museum. Said the board: "We see no compelling reason to seek the withdrawal, in whole or in part, of the exhibit." But after Colonel Owsley's angry query, "Has the park board gone soft on Communists?" Park Board President Ray Hubbard indicated that the main issue was far from being settled for good. Said he: "The issue of Communist art in the museum may come up for review again...
...DAVID T. OWSLEY Manager...