Word: priore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bill does not "outlaw" Communists in this sense, does it create a new crime-that of being a member of the Communist Party? The answer is no. Any explanation of the bill has to take off from the legal position of Communists prior to the bill's passage...
...reach a determination as to 'the character, associations and loyalty' of the individuals engaged in the work of the commission. Thus, disloyalty would be one basis for disqualification, but it is only one. Substantial defects of character and imprudent and dangerous associations . . . are also reasons for disqualification . . . Prior to these proceedings, the derogatory information in Government files concerning Dr. Oppenheimer had never been weighed by any board on the basis of sworn testimony
...Colonel Lansdale [another military intelligence officer] that he did not know Rudy Lambert, a Communist Party functionary. In fact. Dr. Oppenheimer asked Colonel Lansdale what Lambert looked like. Now, however, Dr. Oppenheimer under oath has admitted that he knew and had seen Lambert at least half a dozen times prior to 1943; he supplied a detailed description of Lambert . . . and [said] that he knew at the time that Lambert was an official in the Communist Party...
...right, Doctor. You told this board this morning that Dr. Seaborg did not express himself prior to the meeting of October...
Robb: You testified that you had no intimation from Dr. Seaborg prior to the GAC meeting of October 29, 1949, as to what his views on the subject were. I am going to show you a letter . . . dated October 14, 1949, addressed to you, signed "Glenn Seaborg," and ask you whether you received that letter prior to the meeting of October...