Word: skousen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...AMERICAN SOCIETY, founded in Salt Lake City, has as its guiding light one of the busiest speakers in the rightist movement: W. Cleon Skousen, a balding, bespectacled onetime FBIman who hit the anti-Communist circuit in earnest in 1960. after being fired from his job as Salt Lake City's police chief ("He operated the police department like a Gestapo." says Salt Lake City's conservative Mayor J. Bracken Lee). Skousen freely quotes the Bible, constantly plugs his book, The Naked Communist, presses for a full congressional investigation of the State Department...
...Cleon Skousen, 47, FBI veteran and Mormon Sunday-school teacher, who has run a model police force for 3½ years...
...tossed around vague charges that Skousen had been "insubordinate," but Skousen's real offense seemed to be that he had failed to show enough enthusiasm for Lee's determination to slash the police-department budget. Any interference with his nickel-nipping crusades stirs J. Bracken Lee, 61, to fuming anger. Sometime Republican Governor of Utah (1949-57), Lee ranks high among the obsessive budget-cutters of U.S. politics, keeps on his desk a paperweight inscribed G-D-TAXES. Since taking over as mayor last January, Lee has, among other things: ¶ Refused to pay a $29,000 bill...