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...repeated that the reason she had not gone further into the case of Harry Bridges was that she was waiting for the Supreme Court to decide the parallel case of Joe Strecker, which Solicitor-General Jackson was about to prosecute for her with real vim (see p. 14). She expressed awe at the immense power she wields over aliens, as their investigator, prosecutor, jury and judge. Because of this, she said, she always tries to act "with scrupulous fairness." She said: "I have entire faith and confidence that Congress will protect me and secure my rights and reputation...
...might be deported is that he belongs to the Communist Party, which he denies and which has not been established as a fact; that even if it were established, the Department of Labor would still have to wait for the Supreme Court to pass on the case of Joseph Strecker, whose deportation was halted by the Fifth Circuit Court on the ground that being a Communist was not sufficient cause...
...other outraged liberals began wiring Franklin Roosevelt and the Department of Labor, which straightway granted Writer Strachey a hearing on a technicality having nothing to do with Communism. As he repaired there at week's end, the U.S. Supreme Court announced it would hear an appeal on the Strecker deportation case. This case may establish that membership in the Communist Party is not in itself grounds for deportation...
...case of Joseph Strecker, Austrian born and a confessed onetime Communist. His contention that he is entitled to citizenship since Communist Party membership does not imply advocacy of violent tactics, accepted by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, has been appealed to the Supreme Court...
...concerto not up to snuff.) Since 1907 the concerto had rested securely in the archives of Berlin's Prussian State Library, where its existence had been well known to scholars and had been noted in dozens of bibliographies and musical dictionaries. Last April, German Music Publisher Wilhelm Strecker sent photostats of the original manuscript to Menuhin, asking his opinion of the work. Menuhin replied with an enthusiastic endorsement and a request for performing rights, encouraged Strecker to contest the provisions of Joachim's will. Meantime in England a remarkable claim was advanced, remarkably supported by Critic Richard Capell...