RADICALS: Start of the Hunt

Two years ago, of the 36 million citizens who cast votes in the presidential election, 48,000 marked their ballots for William Zebulon Foster, No. 1 U. S. Communist. Last week the House of Representatives, through a special committee headed by Congressman Hamilton Fish of New York, began to investigate the menace, if any, to the stability of the U. S. Government of the revolutionary doctrines favored by this 0.13% of the nation's electorate. The first week's hearings began with a lesson in the generalities of Communism and concluded with an adroit...

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