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Raged Dr. Selig A. Shevin, resigning from the Jackson Park staff: "UnAmerican, unpatriotic, inhuman...
...Thomas, the ranking Republican Dies Committeeman arid no more ardent a defender of minority rights than Dies himself, proposed that the committee become a permanent House institution. But there was grave doubt that anybody but Demagogue Dies could persuade reluctant fellow Congressmen to keep on financing investigations into the "unAmerican activities" of Walter Winchell...
Martin Dies, redheaded, brassbound Congressman from Texas, vexed by Walter Winchell's sour comments on the "unAmerican activities" of Dies's Committee on Un-American Activities, took to the air to call the columnist a "tool [of the] smearbund," proceeded to do some smearing himself. Under Blue Network rules. Winchell could make no fresh charges until Dies answered his old ones. Dies didn't. They met in the studio after the smearcast, grinned like happy pseudo-warriors. Winchell: "Let's get together and tell some more lies about each other." Dies: "I'd have...
...angry and afraid. Labor leaders blamed John L. Lewis for their predicament. This bill, as a law, would be the first reduction of labor's social gains in ten years. Labor also feared it might foreshadow permanent anti-labor legislation. Cried A. F. of L. President William Green: "UnAmerican, Fascist anti-labor legislation...
...peculiar expressions of amity. He told the Philharmonic Orchestra Association of Southern California that America's primary cultural asset was the English language-which was gradually being destroyed through misuse. Said an Association member next day: "The insults to our nation publicly made [by Beecham] . . . were un-British, unAmerican, uncalled for and should bar him from our auditoriums...