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Good News for Coronaries. On September 29, 1939, William Z. Foster, chairman of Communist Party, USA, appeared before the House Committee on Un-American Activities. His counsel, Joe Brodsky, pleaded that his client had been completely prostrated by a heart condition between 1932 and 1936. In 1949, Foster used the same plea to avoid prosecution under the Smith Act. Since then, the following hefty tomes have appeared under his name: An Outline Political History of the Americas (1951), History of the Communist Party of the United States (1952), The Negro People in American History (1954), and The History of the Three Internationals (1955). Foster is seventy-five years old.

Academic Freedom. George Moore of the University of California, who attended the Communist-dominated World Youth Festival in 1955, is a lecturer at the California Labor School (which has been cited by the Attorney General as subversive).

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Good News for Coronaries. On September 29, 1939, William Z. Foster, chairman of Communist Party, USA, appeared before the House Committee on Un-American Activities. His counsel, Joe Brodsky, pleaded that his client had been completely prostrated by a heart condition between 1932 and 1936. In 1949, Foster used the same plea to avoid prosecution under the Smith Act. Since then, the following hefty tomes have appeared under his name: An Outline Political History of the Americas (1951), History of the Communist Party of the United States (1952), The Negro People in American History (1954), and The History of the Three Internationals (1955). Foster is seventy-five years old.

Academic Freedom. George Moore of the University of California, who attended the Communist-dominated World Youth Festival in 1955, is a lecturer at the California Labor School (which has been cited by the Attorney General as subversive).