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Wisconsin’s Democratic National Committeeman Robert E. Tehan screwed up his courage last week and read Congressional Candidate Edmund Bobrowicz right out of the Democratic Party. Said Tehan: “I am convinced that Bobrowicz is a Communist Party member.” In effect, the purge set a Democratic policy: the bosses were not going to let Communists masquerading as Democrats worm into office—at least, not if their masks slipped.
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