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...Strecker . . . voted for Al Smith in 1928, ... for Mr. Foster in 1932." But in 1933 he was not yet a citizen, according to TIME [Feb. 20]. What goes on here...
...Strecker did vote in both 1928 and 1932. Says his lawyer, C. Alpheus Stanfield: "Here in Hot Springs we are broadminded on a question like that...
This characterization, so curiously opposite to Congressman Dies's picture of Miss Perkins, Solicitor-General Jackson last week sought to erase. He was arguing her appeal against Judge Hutcheson's ruling. After dragging in Joe Strecker's "four women," he attacked the Communist policy† which Joe had embraced as a "Trojan horse" policy for capturing the U. S. He asked the Court to read current Communist references to "revolution" not "in the light of prophecy" but as active, ominous, highly contemporary. Joe Strecker's failure to pay further Communist dues was no defense, argued...
...mounting importance of Joe Strecker as a Reddish bug under the national microscope was further emphasized when, to defend him before the Supreme Court, up rose Lawyer Whitney North Seymour of the eminent Manhattan firm of Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett. Mr. Seymour, a Republican libertarian, won freedom in 1937 for Red Angelo Herndon from Georgia's 71-year-old insurrection law. For Joe Strecker he argued that his case paralleled Herndon's, and that in view of the Communist Party's disclaimers, its members constitute no immediate menace such as the 1918-20 deportation law had in mind...
This week the Supreme Court's august decision on Joe Strecker is at least two weeks off. Meantime, he waited in Hot Springs, did a few odd jobs (carpentering, paperhanging...