Word: un
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with a big stick is loose in America, but he is not walking quietly. Commissioned by Congress to investigate un-American activities, Dies has maneuvered himself into a one-man Supreme Court to judge what is and is not "American" under the Constitution. He has made "isms" almost as popular as sex-murders, and with the press caught by the scruff of its neck feeds it daily with red meat, mostly carrion...
...threatening that Reds may tie-up the Chicago meat-packing industry over night, Dies clearly shows that un-Americanism has no limits but his own imagination. If workers in the stockyards come within the scope of the Committee, who may remain outside? Stockyards mean unions, and unions mean possible Communists. One Party man on the Harvard Faculty might soon provide an opening for the Dies wedge, one radical on a magazine grounds for an expose. Mr. Dies has become past-master of an art on which all strong-men depend. Rather than investigating, he is condemning. Newspapers have become...
Last week a Red-fearing woman in Pine Bluff, Ark. sent Congressman Martin Dies a check for $100. This did not surprise Mr. Dies. But, as a Congressional investigator, he can spend only appropriated funds, so he had to return the gift. In his great hunt for un-Americans, Martin Dies is used to receiving and refunding thousands of donated dollars. Once an 82-year-old beneficiary of Social Security telegraphed SSB to give Martin Dies $362 due her. His take-&-return runs as high as $800 in one day, runs highest when he makes radio speeches announcing that...
Formidable Mr. Dies further defined what he means by un-American activity last week. Up to then he had occupied himself principally with Communism, less frequently with U. S. Naziism & Fascism. In Manhattan to address the Associated Grocery Manufacturers of America, he broadened his distastes to include "people who were impressed with the necessity to remake society along socialistic lines." Said he to the grocery manufacturers, further defining his aims and his conception of acceptable Americans: ". . . The businessmen of this country must . . . say to the people of the country: 'We have a program, a program that is American...
...well-recognized principles of international law," and the obligations of a neutral. As for turning the vessel and her cargo over to her U. S. crew, Russia had made a final decision that to do so, unless the German prize crew refused to take it out, would be an "un-neutral...