House Un-american Activities Committee/standing Committee 1945-1975

Famous quotes containing the words house, activities, committee and/or standing:

    “What is the reason that women servants ... have much lower wages than men servants ... when in fact our female house servants work much harder than the male?”
    —Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

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    “The small creatures chirp thinly through the dust, through the night.
    O mother
    What shall I cry?
    We demand a committee, a representative committee, a committee of investigation
    RESIGN RESIGN RESIGN”
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    “Lawyers are necessary in a community. Some of you ... take a different view; but as I am a member of that legal profession, or was at one time, and have only lost standing in it to become a politician, I still retain the pride of the profession. And I still insist that it is the law and the lawyer that make popular government under a written constitution and written statutes possible.”
    —William Howard Taft (1857–1930)