Word: un-american
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Appearing before the House Un-American Activities Committee, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy Harlow Shapley accuses Rep. John E. Rankin (D-Miss.) of using "Gestapo" tactics in his management of the committee...
Next March, moreover, Basic Books will bring out The Venona Secrets by Herbert Romerstein, former minority chief investigator of the House Internal Security Committee (which used to be HUAC, the House Un-American Activities Committee), and the late Eric Breindel. The book will make sensational charges, among them Romerstein's claim that the radical journalist I.F. Stone was a paid Soviet agent...
...McCarthy's House Committee on Un-American Activities subpoenaed him to testify. But Miller said the subpoena was only because of his impending marriage to movie star Marilyn Monroe--and that House prosecutors were only seeking publicity in the waning years of the McCarthy...
...McCarthy's House Committee on Un-American Activities subpoenaed him to testify. But Miller said the subpoena was only because of his impending marriage to movie star Marilyn Monroe--and that House prosecutors were only seeking publicity in the waning years of the McCarthy...
More important, though, is the implication that the government doesn't trust its citizens to communicate privately, Imagine what the House Un-American Activities Committee might have done in a country where most communication was electronic and the government always had a key. Applying the principle to other means of communication makes the administration's argument seem ludicrous. Think how many criminals have communicated by word of mouth: why don't we force everyone to wear a hidden microphone? Apparently, law-abiding citizens would never object to having other people listen to what they say-unless they needed to hide...