Word: un
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...resolution introduced in the Congress by Representative Joe D. Waggoner (D-La.) last October will, if passed, authorize the House Committee on Un-American Activities to investigate...
...Pool (D-Tex.) also introduced a bill which would impose a $20,000 fine or 20 years in prison on anyone who impedes a member of the armed forces or aids any organization giving support to hostile forces. Arnold Locksnin, secretary of the Massachusetts Committee to Abolish the House Un-American Activities Committee, last night expressed doubts that this bill would pass...
...editorial, the lawyers said, followed the Communist line, just as Webster had charged. Appearing as a star witness, Far-Right Commentator Dan Smoot agreed that the editorial was Communist lining, and the same point was made in a deposition from Martin Dies, onetime chairman of the House Un-American Activities Committee. But then the defense quoted some words of praise for the John Birch Society from a California Senate subcommittee on un-American activities. Once that report had been introduced as evidence, the tactic backfired. McGaw's attorneys were able to read parts that the defense lawyers had ignored...
According to Howe, it was the sense of the group that "the investigating operations of the House Un-American Activities Committee should be upset." He noted that the absence of any restrictions in the HUAC charter enables the committee to study "all un-American propaganda--whatever that may be" and leads to what he termed an "exuberantly irresponsible manner of investigation...
According to Vern Countryman, professor of Law, who also signed the petition, the letter is an effort to "call attention to one more outrageous action of the House Un-American Activities Committee...