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== Organization == The committee was established on April 12, 1934. There were seven members: Nye, the committee chair; and Senators [[Homer T. Bone]] (D-WA), [[James P. Pope]] (D-ID), [[Bennett Champ Clark]] (D-MO), [[Walter F. George]] (D-GA), [[W. Warren Barbour]] (R-NJ), and [[Arthur H. Vandenberg]] (R-MI). Stephen Rauschenbusch, son of Christian [[Social Gospel]] activist Walter Rauschenbusch, was appointed lead counsel for the Committee; his assisting counsel included Robert Wolforth, Josephine Burns and [[Alger Hiss]].<ref>Dorothy Detzer, ''Appointment On The Hill'' (New York, Henry Holt, 1948), pp. 166β168; Detzer misspelled the name as "Raushenbush."</ref> John T. Flynn "played a major role in the course of the investigation" as a member of the committee's Advisory Council of experts.<ref>Wayne S. Cole, Senator Gerald P. Nye and American Foreign Relations (Minneapolis, University of Minnesota, 1962 p. 72.</ref> Burns and Rauschenbusch, who met on the committee, married soon after and co-authored a book that recounts salient testimony gathered by the investigation, ''War Madness'' (Washington, D.C., National Home Library Association, 1937). Alger Hiss served as a legal assistant (counsel) to the committee from July 1934 to August 1935.<ref> {{cite book | first = Allen | last = Weinstein | title = Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case | publisher = | place = New York | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=a86i_Di4X8sC | pages = | date = 1978 | accessdate = 23 November 2016| isbn = 978-0817912260 }}</ref> Most famously, Hiss "badgered" DuPont officials and questioned and cross-examined [[Bernard Baruch]] on March 29, 1935.<ref> {{cite web | title = Munitions industry. Preliminary report on wartime taxation and price control | publisher = US Government Printing Office (US GPO) | url = https://archive.org/stream/munitionsindustr35unit | pages = 23, 28, 60, 113β115, 127 | date = 20 August 1935 | accessdate = 23 November 2016}}</ref><ref> {{cite book | first = John Chabot | last = Smith | authorlink = John Chabot Smith | title = Alger Hiss, the true story | publisher = Holt, Rinehart and Winston | place = New York | url = https://archive.org/details/algerhisstruesto00smit | url-access = registration | pages = [https://archive.org/details/algerhisstruesto00smit/page/83 83]β84 | date = 1976 | accessdate = 23 November 2016| isbn = 978-0030137761 }}</ref><ref> {{cite book | first = Arthur | last = Herman | title = Joseph McCarthy: Reexamining the Life and Legacy of America's Most Hated Senator | publisher = Simon & Schuster | place = New York | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=DIibZoDyADEC | pages = 220β221 | date = 2002 | accessdate = 23 November 2016| isbn = 978-0684836256 }}</ref> About their testimony, Dorothy Detzer (Appointment On The Hill, p. 169) reports: "The four solemn Du Pont brothers," averred that "the corporation's profits of 400% during the First World War seemed only the good fruit of sound business."
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