Investigation of Communist Activities in the State of Florida ...: Hearings ... November 29 and 30, December 1, 1954

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Page 7288 - The Committee on Un-American Activities, as a whole or by subcommittee, is authorized to make from time to time, investigations of (1) the extent, character, and objects of un-American propaganda activities in the United States, (2) the diffusion within the United States of subversive and un-American propaganda that is instigated from foreign countries or of a domestic origin and attacks the principle of the form of government as guaranteed by our Constitution, and (3) all other questions in relation...
Page 7404 - The Committee on Un-American Activities shall report to the House (or to the Clerk of the House if the House is not in session) the results of any such investigation, together with such recommendations as it deems advisable.
Page 7286 - CONGRESS The legislation under which the House Committee on Un-American Activities operates is Public Law 601, 79th Congress (1946), chapter 753, 2d session, which provides: Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * * * PART 2— RULES OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES RULE X SEC.
Page 7405 - Congress in any necessary remedial legislation. The Committee on Un-American Activities shall report to the House (or to the Clerk of the House if the House is not in session) the results of any such investigation, together with such recommendations as it deems advisable. For the purpose of any such investigation, the Committee on Un-American Activities, or any subcommittee thereof, Is authorized to sit and act at such times and places within the United States, whether or not the House is sitting,...
Page 7381 - dedicated not to the broader issues of civil liberties, but specifically to the defense of individual Communists and the Communist Party" and "controlled by individuals who are either members of the Communist Party or openly loyal to it.
Page 7318 - I refuse to answer on the ground that my answer- may tend to incriminate me and for that reason I have decided to invoke my constitutional privilege of the fifth amendment.
Page 7441 - We will adjourn until 2 o'clock this afternoon. (Thereupon at 12: 11 pm, the hearing was recessed, to reconvene at 2 pm, same day.) AFTERNOON SESSION (At the hour of 2 pm, of the same day, the proceedings were resumed, the same parties being present.) Mr.
Page 7327 - I was appointed as a graduate assistant in the department of dramatic art at the University of North Carolina...
Page 7320 - If you will answer the question as to whether or not you are a member of the Communist Party at the present time, we certainly Mr.
Page 7295 - I think you are familiar with the party-line changes from day to day, and you did not know from one day to the next what was going to happen.

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