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...below the list of approximately 250 "suspect" organizations appended to the questionnaire it is stated quite clearly that the list "is not an allegation or an expression of opinion by the State of Georgia that the organizations listed thereon are in violation of State or Federal laws." Yet from these organizations, security officers are supposed to determine "reasonable grounds" for dismissal
These who seem to condone the claim of the privilege because the witness may have had "bad advice" are making a bad matter worse by furnishing excuses for continued action thereon. But the claim does not seem to apply here since all the witnesses concerned were represented by counsel of their choosing. In addition, a group of the Harvard Law School faculty formed a committee, under the chairmanship of Professor Arthur E. Sutherland, for the purpose of furnishing free advice and representation to any Harvard faculty members who might be called before an investigating committee. Actually, the most important...
...command of duty to brand this and every like threat to freedom of the press, from whatever source, as a peril to American freedom . . . Congressional interrogation such as [this], if frequently repeated, would extinguish, without passage of a single law, that free and unfettered reporting of events and comment thereon upon which the preservation of our liberties depends ... A press put to the frequent necessity of explaining its news and editorial policies to a United States Senator, armed with the full powers of the Government . . . is not a free press-whether the Senator be a good or a bad Senator...
...from the United States Bureau of Public Roads, were cited by those who claimed that Massachusetts road costs were excessive. You and I know that statistics can be used or abused too frequently to prove or disprove any particular point. With reference to these statistics and the criticism based thereon, let me quote a sentence from a letter written to Commissioner Callahan of the Massachusetts Department of Public Works by United States Commissioner of Public Roads, Thomas MacDonald, "I regret very much the improper use of our published statistics in this instance...
Wilder will give the second lecture of the series, entitled "Thereon, or the Rean-Row in the Wilderness," November 15. "Emily Dickinson, or the Articulate Inarticulate" will follow on November 29, and the final lecture, "Walt Whitman and the American Loneliness" will be given December...