#herbert brownell

[rmsqueenmaryonthisday]

Mayday

On July 17, 1957, the RMS Queen Mary changed course east of Montauk Point to go to the rescue of four sailors injured by an explosion that killed three on a Navy escort patrol craft. Among those watching the rescue were United States Attorney General Herbert Brownell and three supreme court justices, all on their way to England for a U.S.-British bar session in London. Source: New York Times

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On July 15, 1954, at the direction of U.S. Attorney General Herbert Brownell and under the supervision of Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) Commissioner Joseph Swing, the U.S. Border Patrol began the second phase of an immigration law enforcement initiative in the lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas. The program, officially known as “Operation Wetback,” employed the pejorative term “wetback” often used to refer to Mexican citizens who entered the U.S. by swimming across the Rio Grande River.

The operation had begun one month earlier, targeting Mexican immigrants in California and Arizona. Attorney General Brownell promoted the crackdown based on his assertion that “the Mexican wetback problem was becoming increasingly serious" because Mexican immigrants were “displacing domestic workers, affecting work conditions, spreading disease, and contributing to crime rates.” INS deployed hundreds of agents to the Rio Grande Valley to locate and deport to Mexico anyone they suspected of being in the U.S. without legal status. The following September, INS initiated a similar operation in the Midwest.

Border agents' tactics included descending on Mexican American neighborhoods, demanding identification from “Mexican-looking” citizens on the street, invading private homes in the middle of the night, and raiding Mexican businesses. Without a hearing or oversight, agents often seized and deported people who were lawfully in the country. By the end of these crusades in California, Arizona, and Texas, as many as 200,000 Mexican immigrants had returned to Mexico—including many who were not undocumented and some who were U.S. citizens. Some immigrants left on their own in the face of the large-scale harassment, but most were taken under Border Patrol escort.

By the end of 1954, according to some reports, INS had deported one million Mexican immigrants nationwide. These mandatory deportations were done at the deportee’s expense and cost some people all the money they had earned while working in the U.S. At the program’s close, Attorney General Brownell praised the effort, which violently displaced hundreds of thousands of people from their homes, as a success.

[meandmybigmouth]

Here's the blueprint for Trump's "round em up and sort em out later" immigration sweeps!

Operation Wetback was an immigration law enforcement initiative created by Joseph Swing, the Director of the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS). The program was implemented in June 1954 by U.S. Attorney General Herbert Brownell.[1] The short-lived operation used military-style tactics to remove Mexican immigrants—some of them American citizens—from the United States. Though millions of Mexicans had legally entered the country through joint immigration programs in the first half of the 20th century and some who were naturalized citizens who were once native, Operation Wetback was designed to send them to Mexico.[2]

The program became a contentious issue in Mexico–United States relations, even though it originated from a request by the Mexican government to stop the illegal entry of Mexican laborers into the United States. Legal entry of Mexican workers for employment was at the time controlled by the Bracero Program, established during World War II by an agreement between the U.S. and Mexican governments. Operation Wetback was primarily a response to pressure from a broad coalition of farmers and business interests concerned with the effects of Mexican immigrants living in the United States without legal permission.[3] Upon implementation, Operation Wetback gave rise to arrests and deportations by the U.S. Border Patrol.

[richardnixonlibrary]

#Nixon50 #OTD 8/30/1973 President Nixon received a report from United States Special Representative Herbert Brownell on the completion of an agreement between the U.S. and Mexico on the salinity problem of the Colorado River. (Image: WHPO-E1417-11)

[govpubsfinds]

The Subversive Activities Control Board concluded in this case that the “Respondent is substantially directed, dominated, and controlled by the Communist Party of the United States, a Communist organization, and is primarily operated for the purpose of giving aid and support to such Communist-action organization and to the Soviet Union, a Communist foreign government. It is, therefore, “RECOMMENDED that the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, Inc., be required by appropriate order to register with the Attorney General of the United States as a Communist-Front organization” (p. 55).

Subversive Activities Control Board. (1955). Herbert Brownell, Jr., Attorney General of the United States, petitioner, v. National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, inc., respondent, docket no. 104-53. Washington, D.C.: Subversive Activities Control Board. Full text via HathiTrust.

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Rev. George Washington Lee was the first recorded victim of the racial murders that accompanied African American efforts in the 1950s to bolster voter registration. His murder made clear the perils that African Americans face in pursuing their right to vote.

Born in Edwards, Mississippi, Lee became a grocer and preacher in Belzoni. In 1954, in Mound Bayou, Washington, he exhorted a crowd of around 10,000 to sign up to vote. Lee and his wife, Rosebud, opened a small print shop and grocery where appeals to register to vote were mass produced. Lee was offered a chance to give up on his voters rights efforts in exchange for his life. Lee declined.

On the 7th of May, 1955, Lee was driving in Belzoni when a green and white mercury convertible pulled up alongside him. The window of the other car rolled down and a shotgun blast struck Lee in the face. He died right there at the scene. His brutal murder soon gave way to an effort to conceal the crime. The sheriff, Ike Shelton, claimed that his death was nothing more than a car accident and the case was closed.

The civil rights movement demanded an investigation; Lee’s autopsy report made it clear he had been shot with a shotgun. Nevertheless, Shelton claimed the wounds were caused by dental fillings that became loose in the crash. The pathologist refuted these claims, stating that cavities are not filled with lead. Eventually U.S. Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr. ordered that the Justice Department look into his death. Nevertheless, nobody was ever charged with the murder.

In 1989, the Civil Rights Memorial was erected in Montgomery, Alabama. The memorial is a black-grantors table engraved with the names of 40 victims of racial violence. Rev. George Washington Lee is the first named carved onto the memorial.

[snowlessknitter]

“This is terrible! I was raised to hate communists. I remember in the early ‘50s when McCarthy came to St. Olaf to speak in the town square. I was never so moved by a public speaker. Although some people thought he was a puppet for the right wing. No, wait...that was Charlie McCarthy.”

— Rose Nylund, The Golden Girls (episode: “Sisters and Other Strangers”)

In this particular episode, Stan’s cousin Magda (played by Marian Mercer) had come to visit Miami from Czechoslovakia, which in the year this episode originally aired had recently changed from a Communist state to a democratic one (although it would peacefully separate into the Czech Republic 🇨🇿 and Slovakia 🇸🇰 three years later). Her constant raving about the joys of communism drive Dorothy and Sophia nuts, and eventually Rose is affected, too, resulting in the above quote. But she comically mixes up some anticommunist rhetoric with some comedy gold to give us today’s featured joke. There is also a plot line where Blanche’s sister Charmaine reveals she’s published a novel...and Blanche thinks her sister based the main character off of her!

So...what’s the story behind the joke? The setup has us thinking that Rose is at first talking about Joseph McCarthy. Joseph McCarthy was best known as a politician, specifically a United States Senator representing Wisconsin. Although he was a Democrat for most of his life, he was elected to the Senate as a Republican in 1946 and began his tenure in 1947. The first three years of his Senate career were unremarkable. In February 1950, however, he shot into the national political spotlight when during a speech he gave in West Virginia, he claimed to have a list of either 205 or 57 (the exact number is disputed and no audio from the speech survives) individuals working for the State Department who were members of the United States Communist Party and referred to them as “Enemies Within”. But he had no such list. But he had attained enough political clout to order investigations into potential Communists in the United States, alleging that there were communists who had infiltrated not just the U.S. Government, but also American universities as well as the film industry. McCarthy is often lumped together with the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), which began focusing its investigations on communists (when it had previously also investigated people connected to the Nazis during World War II) the same year McCarthy joined the Senate, but he never served on that committee (being that it was a House committee and McCarthy was a Senator). He also never served on the Subversive Activities Control Board (SACB), but the board was inspired by McCarthy’s fervent calls to investigate any and every person possibly associated with the Communists. These investigations led to many people, especially those in the entertainment industry, to be blacklisted for alleged connections to the Communist Party and ended up ruining a lot of reputations. Journalist Edward R. Murrow became a prominent critic of McCarthyism and devoted episodes of his series See It Now to the hearings. At the end of one episode which profiled McCarthy and the impacts of McCarthyism, Murrow said the following, which is attributed to helping to turn public opinion against McCarthy:

“We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law. We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful men.”

The negative receptions came to a head when McCarthy started accusing members of the United States Army of being communists, which led to a series of Senate hearings on the matter. During one of these hearings, Joseph Welch, who was serving as Army Counsel during the hearings was told by McCarthy to look into Fred Fisher, a lawyer in Welch’s own firm, who had been a member of the National Lawyers Guild, a group that Attorney General Herbert Brownell, Jr. had accused of being the “legal bulwark of the Communist Party”. Welch had confirmed that Fisher was indeed a member of the NLG and had sent him back to his firm in Boston and replaced him with another lawyer. McCarthy continued his attacks on Fisher, and at this point, Welch stopped McCarthy cold and said the following, which ended up summing up the attitude of McCarthyism:

“Senator, may we not drop this? We know he belonged to the Lawyer's Guild ... Let us not assassinate this lad further, Senator; you've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?”

After a last parting shot at McCarthy, Welch excluded himself from the remainder of the hearings. Later that year, on December 22, 1954, the Senate voted 67-22 to censure (formally reprimand) him, which while he was not expelled from the Senate, essentially stripped him of his committee assignments and eradicated his influence in the Senate. He remained in office until his death from hepatitis (believed to be exasperated by his alcoholism) on May 2, 1957. He was succeeded by Democrat William Proxmire, who would go on to become the longest-serving U.S. Senator from Wisconsin (he was in the Senate for about 32 years). McCarthy’s seat is currently held by Democrat Tammy Baldwin, who is notable for being the first openly LGBT Senator (Baldwin is openly lesbian), as well as the first woman to represent Wisconsin in Congress.

Now, as for Charlie McCarthy, he was a puppet character portrayed by actor and ventriloquist Edgar Bergen, who was also the father of actress Candice Bergen (best known for playing the title character of Murphy Brown). Charlie McCarthy was portrayed as a young dandy, wearing a top hat, tails, and a monocle. The height of the character’s popularity was in the 1950s, but Bergen performed with the character all the way up until a few weeks before Bergen’s September 1978 death.

(Now do you get the whole “puppet for the right wing” punchline in the joke?)

A big thank you goes out to @peanutbutterqueen who gave me the heads-up on this particular joke!

This was “Snowlessknitter Explains the Golden Girls Joke” and thank you for coming to my TED Talk! 😂

[mariacallous]

Cohn and Schine’s antics in Europe also generated gossip about the men’s relationship, some of it salacious. One day in Bonn, the two men rushed back to their hotel to retrieve a notebook Schine had left behind. In the lobby, Schine batted Cohn over the head with a rolled-up magazine and they chased each other into Schine’s room. The hotel maid later found the room in a shambles.

From David A. Nichols’s book “Ike and McCarthy”. At this time Roy Cohn is a 25-year old whiz kid who got his law degree at 19, and serving as Chief Counsel to the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, chaired by Joseph McCarthy (R-WI), and G. David Schine is “the handsome son of a wealthy New York family” and serving as the unpaid “chief consultant” to the committee (at Cohn’s insistence), and whose only experience or justification for getting the gig was a six-page anti-communism pamphlet he wrote and had placed in the hotels owned by his family. Eisenhower’s Attorney General, Herbert Brownell, said that the two men were ‘quickly observed to be “inseparable”’

Fellas...

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[yesterdaysprint]

 Joan Brownell, daughter of Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr, 1954

[actually-a-dyke]

Thoughts on The Law including quotes from Wheeler McMillen and Herbert Brownell Jr. Published in the May 1959 issue of The Mattachine Review. Pg. 12

[authorspress]

Hello, bookworms! Clear your bookshelves because Authors Press will exhibit many outstanding books at the 2022 Manila Int'l Book Fair. Here is Grace and Mercy are Free, and Hope is Eternal by Diane Herbert Brownell, available in Kindle and paperback.

[orderjackalope]

For years, archaeologists have searched for the location of Leif Eriksson's Vinland. They should have just asked the good people of New England, who kept finding it everywhere they looked.

Key sources for this episode include the writings of Carl Christian Rafn, Eben Norton Horsford, William Brownell Goodwin, and Frederick Julius Pohl. And also Edmund Berke Delabarre's Recent History of Dighton Rock, Kenneth Feder's Archaeological Oddities, David Godward's The Westford Knight and Henry Sinclair and Douglas Hunter's The Place of Stone.

Script, full sources, links and more at: https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/westward-huss-new-england/

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In 1884 the Fletcher runestone was "translated" by Henry Phillips Jr. Two decades later, Phillips brother-in-law, J. Bunford Samuel, used that translation to justify erecting a statue of Icelandic settler Thorfinn Karlsefni in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park. We recounted the contentious story of the statue's erection in Series 5's "The Icelander", and also discussed its ultimate fate, being thrown into the Schuylkill River by either militant anti-racists or drunken Eagles fans. Philadelphia!

The second Yarmouth runestone appears to have been a hoax created by a hotelier to drum up business. For an earlier instance of hoaxing and hotels, check out our bonus episode "His Royal Snakeship."

And, of course, while we’ve never actually been to Vinland, we’ve made several trips to its namesake, Vineland, NJ, to check in on its eccentric residents, including eugenicist Henry Herbert Goddard (from last month’s “Common Clay”) and chromotherapist Dr. Dinshah Ghadiali (from Series 5’s “Normalating”).

[audbrownell]

If you're new to the Christian faith and still not familiar with its concepts, let Diane Herbert Brownell guide you through her book Grace and Mercy are Free, and Hope is Eternal. Simple and easy to understand, the book will give you answers on the many questions you have on Christianity. Copies of the book are available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Authors Press, and Creative Books.

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“SEXUAL PREFERENCE IS IRRELEVANT TO FEDERAL EMPLOYMENT” – “SEXUAL PREFERENCE IS IRRELEVANT TO ANY EMPLOYMENT” – “DENIAL OF EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY IS IMMORAL,” Barbara Gittings (front), Ernestine Eckstein (fourth from front), and other East Coast Homophile Organization (ECHO) members, The White House, Washington, D.C., October 23, 1965. Photo by Kay Tobin, c/o @nyplpicturecollection. . On April 27, 1953, sixty-four years ago today, President Dwight D. Eisenhower issued Executive Order (E.O.) 10453, which gave the Civil Service Commission (the precursor to today’s Office of Personnel Management) and the heads of the federal agencies—supported by the powers of the Federal Bureau of Investigation—the authority to investigate federal employees to determine if they posed security risks based on a broad definition of “risk” that included “[a]ny criminal, infamous, dishonest, immoral, or notoriously disgraceful conduct, habitual use of intoxicants to excess, drug addiction, or sexual perversion.” . Without explicitly referencing homosexuality, the order responded to the growing Lavender Scare, with Attorney General Herbert Brownell explaining that, “[e]mployees could be a security risk and still not be disloyal or have any traitorous thoughts, but it may be that their personal habits are such that they might be subject to blackmail by people who seek to destroy the safety of our country.” It was, as Michael Long has explained, “the first time that the federal government officially sanctioned the identification of homosexuality as a behavior threatening to national security,” and “federal agency heads increased efforts to purge their agencies of homosexuals.” . E.O. 10453 had the practical effect of officially banning LGBTQs from federal employment until 1975, when the Civil Service Commission announced it would consider applications from gays and lesbians on a case by case basis. #lgbthistory #HavePrideInHistory #Resist (at The White House)

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Smoke-Lyster Residence, Los Angeles, CA, USA (J. Herbert Brownell, 1974)[1720x1147]