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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first trial by Judge Samuel Kaufman, was admitted to the second trial by Judge Henry Goddard. Hiss, who had a Ford roadster, had bought a new Plymouth. Said Chambers: "He wanted to get rid of the Ford. He proposed to turn it over to the Communist Party for the use of some poor organizer . . . Later Mr. Hiss told me that he had turned the car over according to an arrangement made between him and J. Peters." If the Government could prove that such a transfer had actually taken place, the evidence would be a damaging blow to Hiss...
...some agreeable music and peppy dancing, but nothing better; and as if Texas weren't big enough, it makes several fumbling forays across the state line into Oklahoma!. The show is actually best when it has a straight Broadway blare and stomp and when the cast, which could use more personal glamour, can show its professional savvy. Somehow Texas just can't find the right girl or gag in the pinches; it dawdles when it needs to spurt, and turns cheap when it ought to be charming...
...production, high-speed communications, etc.), but is to be blamed on the secularized, un-Christian men who put technics to work. Here, says Brunner, the Christian church has woefully let men down: "Is it not shameful for the Christian society that Confucian China was capable of suppressing the military use of gunpowder, while the Christian Church could not prevent . . . the development of a war machinery incomparably more dreadful...
...process. The standard of the loyalty order is that of "guilt by association," a doctrine first suggested by the Dies Committee in October, 1938 when it demanded the firing of teachers who attended meetings sponsored by alleged communist front organizations. In regard to the doctrine which is now being used by the President's Loyalty Board, Justice Murphy, in bridges v. Wixon, 326 US 135, 163 (1945) said: "The doctrine of personal guilt is one of the fundamental principles of our jurisprudence. It partakes of the very essence of the concept of freedom and due process to law." The standard...
There are a sufficient number of criminal statutes on the books to convict those who are guilty of subversive activity; instead of loyalty oaths, to muzzle the growth and exchange of free opinion, what is needed is an understanding that those who foster and use undemocratic instruments such as loyalty oaths also foster an undemocratic society. Unless the use of such oaths and other similar practices are discontinued, freedom of thought and expression will be completely effacted, and Navy-sponsored snoopers and back fence peeping-toms will not be limited to the Harvard campus. Irwin Gostin...