U.S. official charges American Student Union is communist. Washington, D.C., Nov. 27. Major Hampden Wilson of the U.S. Veterans Administration, today told the Dies Committee that the American Student Union is the vehicle for the spread of communism in the American school system. Wilson gave a summar
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