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...discourse" touched on the dedication, a few hours before, of the Soviet Pavilion. Famed for his anti-Communist campaigns, a specialist in picturesque "and" invective, Father Curran raised his and to a new high, thundered against "a ranking city official" who had greeted the Soviet Pavilion with "fulsome unAmerican praise." Asked whom he meant, Father Curran rasped: "The audience knew whom I meant." A few listeners recalled that he had once before taken a crack at New York City's Mayor LaGuardia two years ago in a speech on New York's "unwashed liberals...
...House last week voted to ham-handed Martin Dies of Texas, Rightist drum major of the Leftist parade, his $100,000 expense money for further probing into UnAmerican Activities. Mr. Dies promptly went shopping for investigators, ex-G-Men preferred. But Speaker Bankhead struck one last minute blow for the Leftists. To a vacancy on the Dies Committee he appointed California's earnest young Representative Jerry Voorhis, good friend of Red Rover Amlie and, since the departure of Texas' Maury Maverick,* leader of the Young Turks in the House. Son of a millionaire, Jerry Voorhis turned down...
...Still seeking $150,000 more to continue his investigation of "UnAmerican Activities...
...second Congressional problem faced the President hard upon the first: the major threat to his Administration which Chairman Martin Dies of the House Committee on UnAmerican Activities seemed to be rapidly becoming. Mr. Dies put out last week a report which loudly attacked Secretary of Labor Perkins for "unbelievable laxity" in handling alien agitators, Secretary of the Interior Ickes for baiting the Committee, Secretary of Commerce Hopkins for harboring Communists in WPA. Mr. Dies demanded $150,000 to continue his investigation, and the President learned that many another Congressman's mail was filled with warnings that Mr. Dies...
WASHINGTON--A St. Louis College President charged today before the House Committee on unAmerican activities that Soviet Russia violated the United States recognition agreement by launching a propaganda campaign in American colleges, schools, churches, newspapers and magazines...