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...round of parties and tell-all books to celebrate the event. One of them, An Affair to Remember by Christopher Andersen, tells the story of how J. Edgar Hoover wanted to blow open the secret affair between Hepburn and Spencer Tracy because of Hepburn's opposition to the House Un-American Activities Committee. Why didn't he? He was talked out of it by a young committee member: Richard Nixon...
...officials at State quietly arranged for him to assume the largely ceremonial presidency of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Hiss was serving as head of the Endowment on Aug. 3, 1948, when Whittaker Chambers, a brilliant but controversial senior editor at TIME, reluctantly appeared before the House Un-American Activities Committee; one of its members was Nixon, an ambitious young California Republican. Chambers, a portly, rumpled man with a melodramatic style, had been a communist courier but broke with the party in 1938. He told the committee that among the members of a secret communist cell in Washington during...
...times to prove my status. I, a Mexican-American U.S. citizen, would have to literally subject myself to constant verification of my "status," while other law-abiding citizens would go about their daily business unscathed. I would risk the misfortune of becoming "suspected," not because I'm un-American, mind you, but because of the color of my skin. It would be naive to think otherwise. If this isn't racism, I don't know what...
Toyota remains un-American, at least as far as the auto industry is concerned, in one key aspect: it is a nonunion shop, a status that is also subject to intense discussion in local communities. Roger Myers, a county commissioner in Indiana who helped bring Toyota to Princeton, was a longtime executive of the United Mine Workers union and sees the new truck plant as a fertile ground for labor organizers. "I know the jobs have to be there before the union is there," Myers says, "but this is still a union community. I think there will be an attempt...
...professor was also a staunch defender of academic freedom. As chair of Harvard's Physics Department in the 1950s, Bainbridge opposed the activities of Sen. Joseph McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee...