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Page 46 - Martin Dies is the American most frequently quoted by the Axis radio in programs beamed to the Hemisphere.
Page 21 - The first witness this morning is Mr. Russ Nixon, Washington representative of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers, an affiliate of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, Washington Office, 1029 Vermont Avenue NW.
Page 1 - Resolution 90 of the Seventy-seventh Congress, and for such purposes said committee shall have the same power and authority as that conferred upon it by said...
Page 6 - The American most frequently quoted by the Axis Radio," says Newsweek, in January, 1942.
Page 28 - ... Wheeler-Hill, former secretary-treasurer of the bund, is also in prison. Our exposures have provided thousands of innocent people with adequate protection against the false claims of the bund. Its drastically reduced membership and following may now be held to consist only of those whose loyalty is to Hitler. When we began our work, the bund and a score of Nazi-minded American groups were laying plans for an impressive united front federation — a federation which would be able to launch a first-rate...
Page 30 - Do you say under oath that you were not a member of the Committee to Defend America by Keeping Out of War and such committee's letterhead, under date of August 10, 1940, does not carry your name?
Page 29 - Communist" approach is particularly important in propaganda directed at Catholic Latin-America, and the Nazis play on that tune to the utmost. In all their quotations from Mr. Dies, no one has ever heard a single criticism of him by the Axis radio.
Page 6 - LEWIS. 1 had thought that you or somebody else from your organization, which is a splendid one, was here once before. Mr. MILLER. 1 succeeded Mr. Farquharson. The CHAIRMAN. If there be no further questions by members of the committee, the witness will please proceed. Mr. MILLER. Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, I want to read a letter from the president of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen addressed to the distinguished chairman of your honorable committee under date of last February...
Page 9 - ... the — Mr. Cox. American Civil Liberties Union? Mr. WEBBER. Yes; that is right. Mr. Cox. It has been demonstrated that — Mr. WEBBER. I am answering your questions without the word "subversive" included. Mr. Cox. Tell us, please, with what other organizations you are connected? Mr. WEBBER. I am a member of the Executive Committee of the United Christian Council for Democracy, a member of the Executive Committee of the Department of Education and Research of the Federal Council of Christ in...
Page 29 - Recently the Nazis talked for days about the Dies' letter to President Roosevelt accusing Leon Henderson of having Communist sympathies and of , harboring Communists in his office of Price Administration.