Word: subpoenae
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...Eugene Dennis, General Secretary of the Communist Party, was convicted of contempt of Congress after refusing to answer a committee subpoena...
Snapped Committee Chairman J. Parnell Thomas: "Never mind about the color of your eyes; you are out of order." Thomas ordered a subpoena served on Dennis to appear again on April 9. If he failed to answer, he could be held in contempt of Congress...
...House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee turned up a juicy bit. Russia, it found, had refused to return, or pay for, the 95 ships lent to her during the war, despite repeated requests from the State Department. Roaring mad, the committee threatened to subpoena Secretary of State Marshall to explain...
...financed the Van Swerin-gens and wanted to keep Young out; from the ICC (which Young insultingly called "that tool of the bankers"). By his lawsuits, Young got to be known as the "most litigious man in Wall Street, who would sue anyone at the drop of a subpoena...
...such tactics, albeit sensational, do not involve dangerous violations of civil rights. The real danger lies in the ability of one man to create, dominate and pervert a Congressional Committee the way john Rankin has. When a Congressman can subpoena an American for taking a vocal role in an election campaign, can cite this same man for contempt and force him to waste his and the government's time with a costly contempt suit, and can deprive the witness of counsel in the manner of the better Inquisitors, it is time Americans look closely to discover where the shoe fits...