Word: subpoena
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nobody's damned business what magazines anyone reads, what he thinks, whom he has cocktails with . . . where no college-trained flatfeet collect memoranda about us," wrote DeVoto. " . . . If it is my duty as citizen to tell what I know about someone, I will perform that duty under subpoena ... I will not discuss anyone in private with any government investigator...
Dennis ran into personal trouble. In 1947 the House Un-American Activities Committee demanded to know his right name. He refused to disclose it and spurned a subpoena. For that he was cited for contempt of Congress. The charge is still pending against...
...coat. She had needed it; the Moscow winter and the chill blast of the Kremlin deportation order were enough to freeze anyone. Her reception at La Guardia was chilly too: a gauntlet of 15 solemn New York cops, two FBI men who pinned her with a Federal Grand Jury subpoena, and a pack of 50 reporters. Why, the reporters wanted to know, had the Russians thrown her out after she had plugged passionately for the Red cause for some 30 of her 64 years...
Three-Year Search. Sam Carr's arrest ended a three-year search. The Mounties had plastered Canada with "Wanted" signs after Carr disappeared early in 1946 just ahead of a subpoena from the Royal Commission on espionage. The commission, whose report gave a full chapter to Sam Carr, called him "the main Canadian cog" in the Russian military espionage organization in Canada...
...next day Stripling telephoned Chambers to come to the committee's Washington office; on arrival he was served with a subpoena which directed him to turn over all forms of documents and evidence in his possession. Chambers looked at the legal form; then, matter-of-factly, he admitted that he had more evidence, and promised to turn it over...