Senator Hugo La Fayette Black's Lobby Investigating Committee last week launched a direct attack on the organizations whose business it is to attack the New Deal. Witnesses-of-the-week were Fred George Clark, Ohio oilman who leads The Crusaders, and Secretary Earley Vernon Wilcox of the Farmers' Independence Council of America. From Crusader Clark the Senators got the story of his organization, founded to fight Prohibition, continued after Repeal to agitate for Constitutionalism, Sound Money, Balanced Budget, and the defeat of "the forces destroying liberty and individual freedom." From Dr. Wilcox the Senators learned...
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