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In 1940, the FBI commenced an extensive investigation of the Guild seeking to label it as a subversive organization dominated by a foreign power.— Allard Lowenstein: An Exchange
Brownell brought proceedings which dragged on until 1958, at which time the Justice Department dropped its efforts to list the Guild as a subversive organization because, as its own internal records show, its evidence of Communist control was insufficient even to make out a prima facie case.— Allard Lowenstein: An Exchange
In the cold fluorescent light of the modern workplace, melancholia is unproductive, subversive, anti-capitalist even.— The Crack-Up
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