Word: rauh
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JOSEPH L. RAUH JR. Vice Chairman Americans for Democratic Action Washington
...ground floor of the Capitol in Room F-41, nine representatives of "100% civil rights or bust" organizations met secretly one morning last week. Among those present: Vice Chairman Joseph Rauh Jr. of Americans for Democratic Action; Roy Wilkins, executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; spokesmen for United Auto Workers President Walter Reuther and International Electrical Workers President James Carey. The Hobsonian choice before these good liberals: whether to support a civil rights bill that had been so weakened by the Senate's Democratic leadership that the South was putting up only token...
...York Times copy editor who was found guilty of contempt of Congress for refusing to tell a Senate subcommittee if he was a Communist (TIME, Jan. 28), returned last week to Washington's Federal Courthouse for sentencing. Pleading against a jail term for his client, Attorney Joseph L. Rauh, chairman of Americans for Democratic Action, made probably the least effective legal argument of the week, contending that "there can be no question" of Shelton's loyalty, since he had "made a clean breast of his past to his employers" and remained on the payroll at the Times, which...
Shelton, the first of the "uncooperative" newsmen to go to trial, called no witnesses when his case was heard last week in Washington by Federal Judge Ross Rizley. Instead, Defense Attorney Joseph L. Rauh Jr., chairman of Americans for Democratic Action, argued that the investigation was illegal because it served "no valid legislative purpose," that the subcommittee had no more right to question Shelton than any other "man off the street," heard his testimony solely to "expose him and others to contempt and ridicule." The investigation was a "reprisal" against the Times, which had frequently criticized the segregationist views...
After a two-day trial without jury, Judge Rizley found Shelton guilty of contempt, dismissed as "patently unsound" Rauh's argument that the investigation was 1) illegal, and 2) aimed specifically at the Times...