Communist Hunt in Records Reveals Hollywood Infiltration
Newly released transcripts show the House Un-American Activities Committee heard that Soviet sympathizers sought to inject pro Soviet doctrine into scripts and scenes. Witnesses including actors and screenwriters described efforts to spread propaganda through movies in the 1940s and 1950s while committee investigations tracked Hollywood unions and other groups.
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House Committee On Un-American Activites
Los Angel
Hollywood
Com Tounist
Amerca
Adolphe
Moscow
Herb Romerstein
Kenneth Lloyd Billingsley
California
Abe Flitincite
Bilingsley
Communist Party
Jack Moffitt
IMT
John Howard Lawson
American Communist Party
Screen Writers Guild
Moditt
Lawson
Prnnagaeia
Louis B. Mayer
MGM Studies
House Committee of Un-American Activities
Communist Activitie
Paul V. McNutt
New Air Force General Nominated as Joint Chiefs Chairman
President Bush nominated Air Force General Richard B. Myers age 59 on Friday to be chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. If confirmed, he would be the first Air Force officer to hold the post since 1982.
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Air Force
Richard B. Myers
Bush
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Joint Chiefs
Military career of senior U.S. general spans Asia and space
The officer entered the Air Force via ROTC in 1965 and held commands across Japan from 1993 to 1996, the Joint Chiefs of Staff staff assistant from 1996 to 1997, and led Pacific Air Forces from 1997 to 1998. He then commanded Air Force Space Command 1998 to 2000, rising to Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs in spring 2000. A pilot with over 4,000 flying hours including 600 combat hours over Vietnam, he is married with three children.
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Reserve Officer Training Corps
U.S
Japan
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Pacific Air Forces
Air Force Space Command
Vietnam
Bush nominates Myers as Joint Chiefs chairman
President Bush nominated Air Force General Richard Myers, a Vietnam combat pilot and Space Command leader, to be the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs. The choice emphasizes budgetary balance, space based defenses, and a focus on modernizing forces while reducing manpower to fund new capabilities. Myers, 59, would be the first airman to lead the Joint Chiefs since 1982, with strong backing from Defense Secretary Rumsfeld and praise from former Air Force chief Merrill McPeak.
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Air Force
Richard Myers
Bush
America
Myers
Asia- Pacific
U.s.ommand Space C
Kansas
Defense
Donald Id H. Rumsfeld
Sera
Joint Chiefs of
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Hent Humsfeld
Lyers
Dai Minitary
Senate
Pentagon
Gen. Myers
Merrill McPeak
McPeak
Gen. McPeak
Finces m. Myers
Meticulous judge named to set penalty for Microsoft
Federal judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, known for a meticulous reputation, was named to decide penalties for Microsoft over illegal anti competitive practices and bundling of Internet Explorer with Windows XP. The case, reassigned after Judge Jackson’s split verdict, will determine whether a breakup or other penalties are warranted.
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Washington
Federa
Microsoft
U.S
Collee Kollar-Kotelly
Thomas Penfield Jackson
Kollar-Kotelly
Clinton
Jackson
Redmond
Washly
Justice Department
Gina Talamona
Department
Antitrust
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