Word: witch-hunt
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Lynch's motion authorized Chief of Police John R. King to ask the U. S. Department of Justice for a complete list of Communists living and working in Cambridge. Five of the nine councilmen accepted the measure although the opposition warned that the move would "instigate the greatest witch-hunt in history...
...that the City Council will be given proference over a Congressional Committee in access to secret files. "One of the greatest perils if such lists were given out," the Mayor said yesterday, "would be the possibility for Communists to enter the names of their enemies and instigate the greatest witch-hunt in history...
...charm that would never lead you to think that this man had done some of his strongest and most persuasive talking before a series of hostile Congressional committees. He has obviously gotten some rest since his last trip to Cambridge (a flying graduation visit in June, when the Hickenlooper witch-hunt was keeping him under klieg lights and on the front pages); he seemed very much at ease and relaxed this time...
After the local doctor had tried his few remedies on the girls ("physics" made no difference), he weightily declared that "The evil hand is on them." With these chilling words the witch-hunt began...
...impression left by the press. We are fundamentally opposed to the President's position that Communists per se are unfit as teachers, but we are confident that his ideals are completely incompatible with those of the "Little Dies" committees. We are confident he would oppose any action resembling a "witch-hunt...