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Frances Perkins - Interview 101, side 2 - 24 May, 1955 - This interview taken on a tape-recorder.

What is the name of the lawyer who took this role in the Civil Service investigations?

The name of the lawyer whom we appointed to help Mr. Mitchell was Lawrence Melloy, who had been in the Commission for some years and had considerable experience.

But there had been almost no cases in which there were charges of disloyalty before the Commission. The cases which they had held, like Marani and a few others whom I now forget, were cases held on the grounds of unsuitable moral character. They were unsuitable for Federal employment. There was a finding that they made if there was evidence that the person was serving two masters, or was two much tied up with the Communist Party, but those were very rare cases. There were charges against a number of people, and hearings for some of them had been held, but many of them had been cleared--not cleared in the sense of a thorough investigation, but, on the evidence before the Commission's inquiry committee, there was nothing on which to charge them with unsuitability for Federal employment, nor was there any apparent movement to do that.