Word: personalities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While running the House Un-American Activities Committee, New Jersey's red-faced J. Parnell Thomas was frustrated by the Constitution's Fifth Amendment, which says: "No person . . . shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself." Thomas unmercifully badgered many witnesses who fell back on that constitutional guarantee. Last August his committee seriously proposed that Congress find some means of barring the Fifth Amendment's protection to Communists...
Occasional epidemics still must be expected, according to Moore, since "an occasional accident will happen unless you have an inspector for every person who handles food...
...Dramatic Club commented that a person like this differs from the "critics who can't distinguish wit and sophistication from vulgarity...
...Hall Friday night and the audience quilted down, the butt end of a guitar came out slowly through the curtain, its varnish glittering, followed by the arm, shoulder and figure of Josh White. And so it went throughout the evening--the guitar and music came first and Josh, the person, appeared only when the music stopped, to say a word or two or wipe his lips. With each song, the chords would sound first, loud and vigorous; then the words would rush in between the chords, pushed forward by the tapping of White's foot and the beat that filled...
...music predominated, but he final song was "Strange Fruit" and Josh was no longer a "troubadour" as the program announced. "This song needs no introduction," he said. As he sang, he became a witness for the Negro people, a person with something to say, not an entertainer with a guitar. He told of the mournful South where men are still hanging from the trees, the "strange fruit" that is everyone's poison. Cheers and clapping followed the guitar off the stage but the praise was all of Josh White...