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    The MundtNixon Bill, named after Karl Mundt and Richard Nixon, formally the Subversive Activities Control Act, was a proposed law in 1948 that would have...
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  • S. Congress passed the Smith Act. In 1948, the House proposed the MundtNixon Bill, or "Subversive Activities Control Act [of] 1948,", as H.R. (House...
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    Committee to Defeat the Mundt Bill AKA "NCDMB" (1948-1950) was an American organization that sought to oppose passage of the Mundt-Nixon Bill and subject of a...
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    Activities Committee Karl Mundt Archives Karl Mundt Library Mundt-Nixon Bill Smith–Mundt Act Voice of America UNESCO "Mundt, Karl Earl (1900–1974)". Office...
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    totalitarian and only cause it to work in secret. Stassen made the proposed MundtNixon Bill the center of his argument by incorrectly asserting that its passage...
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    domestic intelligence under J. Edgar Hoover. By May 1948, Nixon had co-sponsored the MundtNixon Bill to implement "a new approach to the complicated problem...
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    (Public Law 80-402), popularly called the Smith–Mundt Act, was first introduced by Congressman Karl E. Mundt (R-SD) in January 1945 in the 79th Congress....
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  • CPUSA. Robeson opposed anti-communist legislation. In 1948, he opposed a bill calling for registration of Communist Party members and appeared before the...
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  • disfavored causes: opposing the Mundt-Nixon Bill; defending labor unions and alleged Communists; upholding the Bill of Rights. Rein ... represented Gerhard...
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    serving on the House Un-American Activities Committee, sponsoring the MundtNixon Bill to require Communist Party members to register with the government...
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    party opposed the MundtNixon Bill and McCarran Internal Security Act, although Berle supported an amended version of the MundtNixon Bill. Berle opposed...
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    Hatch Act of 1939 MundtNixon Bill of 1948 Mundt–Ferguson Communist Registration Bill of 1950 National Committee to Defeat the Mundt Bill (1948–1950) McCarran–Walter...
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    Manning Johnson McCarran Internal Security Act Mundt–Ferguson Communist Registration Bill MundtNixon Bill Red-baiting Subversive Activities Control Board...
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  • from 1933 to 1951. During that time, he wrote in opposition of the Mundt-Nixon Bill of 1948 over the issue of "guilt by association" (see "Writings," below)...
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    response. Dewey responded with an extemporaneous criticism of the Mundt-Nixon Bill as a "grievous error," and pointed to the fact that Canada had banned...
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    to Defeat the Mundt Bill"; the MundtNixon Bill had passed the U.S. House of Representatives but was stalled in the U.S. Senate. The bill would have required...
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    prosecutions, and that the MundtNixon bill (soon replaced by the similar McCarran–Wood bill) would erode civil liberties. With the bill sure to pass, Douglas...
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  • head domestic intelligence under Hoover). By May 1948, Nixon had co-sponsored a "Mundt-Nixon Bill" to implement "a new approach to the complicated problem...
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    Activities Committee AKA "HUAC" (two of whose members were Mundt and Nixon–of the Mundt-Nixon Bill). Already in August 1950, HUAC had re-subpoenaed four witness...
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  • Zechariah. "The Registration of 'Communist-Front' Organizations in the Mundt-Nixon Bill," Harvard Law ReviewVol. 63, No. 8 (Jun., 1950), pp. 1382–1390 in JSTOR...
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  • MundtNixon Bill of 1948 passes the House (but soon after fails to reach a Senate vote. In 1950, the Mundt–Ferguson Communist Registration Bill also...
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  • a co-founder. On May 31, 1948, Schultz testified in support of the Mundt-Nixon Bill. In July 1948, Sokolsky mentioned formation of an AJLAC office in Los...
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    communism, particularly during his time in Congress. He voted against the Mundt-Nixon Bill, which would have required registration of Communist Party members...
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  • President Richard Nixon entered office in 1969 with Chief Justice Earl Warren having announced his retirement from the Supreme Court of the United States...
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    urge enactment of civil rights legislation and protest the Mundt-Nixon Communist Control Bill. Born: Jerry Mathers, actor, in Sioux City, Iowa Died: hanged...
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    May 1948, Counterattack denounced the communist opposition to the Mundt-Nixon Bill. On July 2, 1948, Keenan and Kirkpatrick testified before the Special...
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  • Richard Nixon from his inauguration as the 37th president of the United States on January 20, 1969, to December 31, 1969. January 20 – Richard Nixon's presidency...
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    passage of the Mundt-Nixon Bill on May 19, 1948, at month's end Pressman submitted a long, undated statement called "The Mundt Control Bill (H.R. 5852),...
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  • disfavored causes: opposing the Mundt-Nixon Bill; defending labor unions and alleged Communists; upholding the Bill of Rights. Rein ... represented Gerhard...
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  • commonly known as "HUAC", one of whose members was Richard Nixon, co–author of the Mundt-Nixon Bill. Already in August 1950, HUAC had re-subpoenaed four witness...
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