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Having attained a nearly unprecedented majority in the House of Representatives, the Democratic Party fell heir in January to several additional seats on the House Un-American Activities Committee. And, before HUAC Chairman Edwin E. Willis could spell Plekhanov, Congressman Charles L. Weltner of Atlanta had, without histrionics or controversy...
Mr. Weltner is a promising young liberal. He vigorously supported the Civil Rights Bill, remained neutral on on the Mississippi Freedom Party issue at the convention, and was re-elected last yar by a constituency that has recently become 50 per cent Negro. Mr. Willis is an aged conservative. Less...
Last week Weltner proposed that the Committee begin investigating the Ku Klux Klan, the Minutemen, and the Black Muslims. Chairman Willis, clearly embarrassed, directed his staff to give the idea a "thorough look-see." The odds are against Weltner. Though HUAC, in the late 1930's, investigated the American Nazi...
Yale was deeply embarrassed a year ago when Kingman Brewster, then acting president, persuaded students to cancel a speaking invitation to Alabama's Governor George Wallace; and now "the administration suffers in agonizing silence rather than tamper with free speech and action" says Yale Daily News Chairman Alexander Sharp...
During the years that Drew Pearson's syndicated column "Washington Merry-Go-Round ran in the Fairbanks, Alaska, News-Miner, Pearson's most constant detractor was C.W. (for Charles Willis) Snedden-who happens to be the News-Miner's Publisher. It seemed to Snedden that the columnist...