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...utilities' offer, Mr. Willkie snapped: "Utility properties without a market are valueless except as junk. ... In effect, the Government holds a gun to the head of the utility and says 'Sell at our price or we duplicate.' . . . This is one of the most cruel, brutal, and unAmerican doctrines ever adopted...
Harold LeClair Ickes, Secretary of the Interior and master of PWA, has established himself beyond compare as the champion name-caller of the New Deal. Last week he crossed tongues with ham-fisted Chairman Dies of the House's famed UnAmerican Committee, calling Mr. Dies "the outstanding zany* of our political history." Mr. Dies retorted that the Secretary of the Interior "literally reeks with the venom of hatred...
Undecided whether they had chanced upon a "communist" or "fascist" plot, public officials promptly investigated. Assistant County Attorney E. W. Brown summoned Commissars Walser & Ishmael, vainly demanded the names of other members. In Washington Chairman Martin Dies of the House Committee Investigating UnAmerican Activities wired for full details. Said he: "This is very important...
...daily doings had not been so fully accounted for in the press last week, janitors and lollers might have looked twice at a sight in a hearing room in the House Office Building. Even so, those who did look blinked. Up to testify before the Dies Committee on UnAmerican Activities strode a militant-looking Hitler counterpart clad in a brownshirt uniform and Sam Browne belt, with a dab of mustache and a Führerish haircut. Cameras clicked and Chairman Dies, who had lately been short of headlines, beamed...
...time he made a third application in 1936-two years after San Francisco's bloody General Strike-Secretary Perkins was besieged with requests to deport Australian Bridges as an undesirable alien. This year the hue has been raised still louder by Congressman Martin Dies's Committee on UnAmerican Activities, whose chairman claims that Bridges is a Communist. Secretary Perkins says she is awaiting a Supreme Court ruling on whether Communism provides ground for deportation.* With impatient Chairman Dies even threatening to impeach her unless she acts, Secretary Perkins still refuses to be hurried. Meantime, Los Angeles' Superior...