Word: secretes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House promptly slapped Ed Gossett and passed the bill with a resounding voice vote. But the bill had a clouded future as it went to the Senate Judiciary Committee. There, by interminable secret hearings, bovine deliberateness, and dogged delay, Nevada's silver-haired Pat McCarran had been earnestly sabotaging any revision in the D.P. restrictions. He had pigeonholed one bill, introduced one of his own which nominally increased the number of admissions but kept all the unworkable restrictions. It was only a one-man show, but so far, it had been enough...
...Government was going to put Chambers on the stand-there he would tell "in most explicit fashion" how Hiss had given him secret documents in 1937 and 1938. The jury would be shown 47 of them; Chambers would testify that Hiss brought documents home at night from his office in the State Department and that his wife, Priscilla Hiss, typed copies of them on an old, pica-type Woodstock typewriter...
Then he turned to "this man who calls himself Chambers, alias Adams, alias Crosley, alias Cantwell, and was a member of this nefarious, filthy conspiracy for twelve long years." Midway in his diatribe he veered to throw in a shocker. Discussing the secret documents which the State would present, Lloyd Stryker cried in triumph: "We have the typewriter! We'll let these FBIs come over and look at it all they like...
Comments on the ballots in favor of letting Communists teach often added the proviso that they be kept out of secret government work and that they be labelled as Communists...
...President Seymour of Yale has also opposed "witch-hunts." Instead of "witch-hunts," Yale accepted secret reports, FBI interference, and their consequence--fear. Thus, to avoid suspicion that anything of that nature will take place at Harvard, President Conant must go beyond opposition to "witch-hunts." He must state categorically what criteria will and what criteria will not be used for keeping Communists off the faculty. He must do all this first, because until he does, there will be room for doubt within the Harvard academic community. Second and most important, he must do this to re-establish Harvard...