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4146.589 - 4170.589 Steven Monticelli

Rather than earning him scorn, Beatty's virulently hateful anti-Jewish rants won him a large following. His book, Iron Curtain Over America, went through nine printings by 1953. The Public Affairs Luncheon Club, a women's organization, adopted a unanimous resolution backing Beattie in requesting that SMU investigate alleged communist influence on the university's faculty, politics, and values.