Off to jail last week for contempt of Congress went lean, bushy-haired George Marshall,* who lent his name and gave thousands of dollars from his inherited fortune to Communist-line causes. He was convicted for refusing to name contributors to his party-line National Federation for Constitutional Liberties when asked by the House Un-American Activities Committee back in 1946. Marshall wanted to serve his three months in Manhattan's West Street jail (where Party Secretary Eugene Dennis is behind bars for the same reason), was locked up instead in Washington, D.C.
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