Equipped with the information turned over to it by the Jewish Daily Bulletin, the Congressional committee to investigate un-American activities yesterday afternoon questioned John B. Snow, peddler of anti-Semitic literature, at an executive session in the Bar Association Building.
Accompanying Snow, a statistician formerly employed by the brokerage firm of Reynolds. Fish & Co., was his attorney, Clifford H. Owen of 218 Fulton street.
According to Owen, the session lasted only about forty minutes, during which his client was asked to submit evidence of subversive Communistic activities in this country. Congressman Samuel Dickstein, who presided, said the witness admitted he had no such evidence.
Snow, who maintains friendly relations with his former employers and with many other important figures in Wall street, is using his own money to incite antagonism toward the Jews, employing anti-Communism as a blind, The Bulletin learned.
DOUBTS “PROTOCOLS,” BUT SELLS IT
During his testimony at yesterday’s hearing, it was further revealed, Snow declared he pays only $20 a month for his spacious office in the expensive Reynolds, Fish uptown suite at 18 East Forty-eighth street.
He also told Dickstein he is
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