REQUIESCAT IN PHOOEY
Requiescat In Phooey 1938-1945 (From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch) THE Dies Committee, it seems, is about to become a dead committee. Its perennial chairman, Rep. Dies of Texas—who became to...
...Dies implemented—as the higher-brows say— these simple articles of faith with an appeal to which his confreres in the House always rose as a sucker to a gold brick...
...He indignantly called to their attention criticisms which lesser minds had had the arrogance to level against their sterling statesmanship...
...3. It can well be understood...
...Dies' philosophy was that the way to foster Americanism was to persecute Americans...
...Good riddance...
...Now, it is said, there is no one in Congress influential enough to step forward and request a continuance of the committee before its legal existence expires on Jan...
...that everyone should be presumed to be a Communist until he was proved innocent, and that the best of all possible worlds was one in which Martin Dies' photograph appeared in the newspapers daily and Sunday...
...The Dies Committee, side-show barker in the legislative halls, looker under beds, chaser after mirages, ignorer of real dangers, is on the way out...
...Dies was given sufficient dough—$650,000 of it in all...
...Three of his co-workers lost their seats: Starnes of Alabama, Costello of California and Busbey of Illinois...
...Dies of Texas—who became to Americanism what Mr...
...A rare combination of qualities is required to produce a Martin Dies—of bumptiousness and bigotry and brass...
...Corrigan was to aviation—chose not to run for re-election...
...He promised to put an end to these un-American doings, given sufficient dough...
...The 37 volumes of testimony and reports which his committee produced are a monument to the American Congressman's sensitiveness to criticism and to the sterling statesmanship with which he will assuage and protect his wounded vanity...
Vol. 8 • December 1944 • No. 49
