Word: witch-hunt
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...United Nations. At that time Paul Robeson was Chairman of the Council on American Affairs and Dubois became associated with this group. But in 1946 the Cold War began and in 1947 the Justice Department issued a list of "subversive" organizations; it included the Council in its witch-hunt. DuBois' refusal to eschew either his views or his associations led to his swift dismissal from the NAACP...
...spirit of the Salem witch-hunt haunts Washington again. Sarah McClendon's labeling of William A. Wieland and J. Clayton Miller, two State Department aides, as security risks, has aroused a storm of rumors and accusations which remind one of the days of McCarthy and McCloud. Although the President instantly rebuked Mrs. McClendon for her defamatory reference, her cry was soon taken up by Senator Olin D. Johnston (Dem. S.C.) and various House Republicans, whose opinions are presented in a recent issue of National Review. If such statements continue unchecked, Wieland's career may be ruined...
...vigorous statement in defense of the two men claiming complete responsibility for their actions and requesting Congressmen to refer any criticisms to him personally, their careers could still be saved. The Secretary, if he responded with equal firmness to any future cases of this sort, would soon end the "witch-hunt" for security risks. Secretary of Defense MacNamara's recent defense of his censors show how effective a strong stand in support of subordinates...
...some critics have argued, legalisms based on semantic misinterpretation. They were, on the contrary, reasonable assertions of basic, but long-neglected, civil rights. It is therefore astounding to find the ABA standing with the American Legion and comparable reactionary elements in proposing a return to the days of the witch-hunt and the Red herring...
...period, Braden denied that he had ever been a member of the Communist party, and rejected the implication that the bombing had been part of a "Communist plot" to exploit the segregation issue. Law enforcement agencies in Louisville, he said, attempted to "cover up the bombing by instituting a witch-hunt...