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Mark DeWolf Howe '28, professor of Law, sharply criticized Attorney General Brownell's speech last week attacking former President Truman for retaining White in his administration. Howe termed Brownell's address and Tuesday's subpoena of Truman by Velde "the biggest Republican blunder...
...September 1952 when Burgum received a subpoena to appear before the Senate Subcommittee he conferred with his department chairman. Although urged to answer all questions frankly, he indicated at that time that he probably would not answer questions concerning his relationship to the Communist Party...
Leading the investigations were the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, headed until November by Senator Pat McCarran (D-Nev.) and by Sen. William E. Jenner (R-Ind.) afterwards; and the House Un-American Activities Committee, headed by Rep. Harold Velde (R-Ill.). Both group had full subpoena power, both had sent large research staffs in the field for months before they called witnesses. Both confronted witness with large stores of information on Communist and front activity during the last fifteen years. In almost every state in the union, state legislative committees had started or were preparing similar investigations...
...objectives; therefore I will not tell it what I know." He is neither wise nor legally justified in attempting political protest by standing silent when obligated to speak. The citizen is ordinarily required, when summoned, to give testimony to a Court, legislative committee or other body vested with subpoena power and if he refuses to do so he is punishable. Subpoena power has proved necessary to the conduct of government: it is the correlative of the guarantee to an accused in the Sixth Amendment that he shall have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor...
...more. I used Canadian wheat as filler [and] the Houston Merchants' Exchange checked that wheat every two weeks - checked it and approved it." Demanded Fellrath:"Is it my fault if they approved something they shouldn't have?" This week, the Senate Agriculture Committee was trying to subpoena the records of Transit Grain Co., and set about finding out if life in other grain elevators was as profitable as in Houston and New Orleans...