Excerpt from Annual Report of the Committee on Un-American Activities for the Year 1951 The committee is aware more than ever before of the importance and magnitude of the duty entrusted it by the Congress. During 1951 the committee held more than 100 public hearings and nearly as many executive meetings. The members on several instances commenced hearings as early as 8 o'clock in the morning and frequent ly the hearings would extend into the late evening hours. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.