Word: richardson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Salty old (71) Seth Richardson was good & mad. He was, by his own lights, as dyed-in-the-wool a conservative as a man could be-a wealthy Washington corporation lawyer, a Republican, an avowed isolationist. His Republicanism went way back -to the Hoover administration, when he was Assistant Attorney General, and beyond that, back to his days in North Dakota. Now his critics in Congress were questioning his loyalty...
...started when Harry Truman picked Richardson to head the Subversive Activities Control Board. That aroused the Senate's one-man roadblock, Nevada's testy Pat McCarran, chairman of the powerful Senate Judiciary Committee. McCarran would not even permit a hearing on whether Congress should confirm Richardson and the four other board appointees, because McCarran wanted to handle loyalty himself. Last week Richardson quit, giving as his reason a critical surgical operation ordered by his doctors. Then...
Most of the criticism stemmed from the fact that the Loyalty Review Board, with Richardson as chairman, had cleared William Remington, Department of Commerce economist, of charges that he was then a Communist. Later Remington was convicted of perjury for saying he had never been...
...standards said we were to determine whether the man is disloyal [right now]," argued Richardson. "In the Remington case we said that for the last six years, uninterrupted, he had been a Government employee, and every one of his superiors testified that he was straight as a string. The FBI couldn't find anything wrong with him for that period. When he got out of college he was as radical as a short-tailed pup. If the case had come up then, we would have fired him in five minutes . . . If we had found one thing wrong...
...DiBlasio, Framingham, Mass.; Walter F. Greeley, Framingham, Mass.; Nathaniel L. Harris, Dedham, Mass.; Morgan P. Hatch, Wellesley Hills, Mass.; Edward A. Hubbard, So. Natick, Mass.; Joseph B. Kittredge, Arlington, Mass.; Harold T. Marshall, Sharon, Mass.; James B. O'Brien, Cambridge, Mass.; Lewis T. Preston, Boston, Mass.; Edwin B. Richardson, New York, N.Y.; Henry D. Sedgwick, Dedham, Mass.; Carl W. Timpson, Jr., Howlett, N.Y.; John N. White, Wayland, Mass.; James H. Wykoff, Belmont, Mass.; Edward C. Thayer 2nd, Manager, Woodmere...