Word: subpoena
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...women connected with I.P.R. and involved by evidence in pro-Communist activities were out of reach (abroad, dead, in hiding, etc,) of subpoena. Included: Gunther Stein, Agnes Smedley, Andrew Roth...
...show, not give, membership lists when applying to use Harvard facilities." Currently concerned with the Harvard facilities." Currently concerned with the trouble unpopular associations may cause undergraduates in the future, they have forgotten the trouble it may cause them while in college. It may be unlikely that anyone would subpoena membership lists out of War son's office, but it is legally possible...
Whatever else it did, the investigation would hurt Morris' effort to get subpoena powers from Congress. He just did not seem to be made for either the giving or receiving end of an investigation. As he himself put it: "I am a queer kind of guy. You probably wouldn't understand me . . . It is kind of hard to explain. I guess I am a softy, Mr. Chairman...
Because Congress has nailed him to the tankers, Morris has received neither subpoena power nor the privilege to immunize certain witnesses from prosecution. The investigation has dragged on for so long that it looks as if Morris' chances to tackle the Internal Revenue Department are as remote as Pogo's fulfilling his "date in Lapland to trim a reindeer...
...School Coffee Hour, Miss Revere told the story of her "sins," which include sponsorship of the campaign for Henry Wallace, activity in the Screen Actors Guild, membership in certain "subversive" organizations, and a general impatience with the "faults of our democracy." It was these which led to her subpoena to appear before the Un-American Activities Committee...