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...wrote throbbingly about American history: the Revolutionary War in The Unvanquished and Citizen Tom Paine, Reconstruction in Freedom Road. As a political activist of the far left, he spent three months in jail during 1950 for failing to comply with a House Un-American Activities Committee subpoena. He was a columnist for the Daily Worker, a 1952 American Labor Party candidate for Congress, a 1953 winner of a Stalin Peace Prize and the most popular American author in the U.S.S.R. "There is no nobler, no finer product of man's existence on this earth than the Communist Party...
Without first asking for a subpoena for the photographs, the Palo Alto police obtained a search warrant...
...order to get a subpoena--which would have given them legal right to the photographs--the police would have had to show they needed the pictures for legal reasons...
...Daily sued the Palo Alto police and the district attorney, charging that the police failure to subpoena the photos before searching for them was a violation of its civil rights...
...leader, has ordered mobsters into the hunt. He has other worries. He was on crutches last week because rival gangsters assaulted him in Brooklyn as a warning to keep his fingers put of the gambling casinos soon to open in Atlantic City. Then FBI agents served him with a subpoena that requires he appear this week before a Miami federal grand jury probing mob infiltration of businesses there...