elizabeth dilling was bananas. but this crusade to shut down the universities, to expose universities of subversive institutions that have to be shut down if we're going to save america, this has been sort of a recurring thing on the far-right for a long time. i mean, that all happened in the '30s. but when barry goldwater was the republican nominee for president in 1964, one of the minor scandals in his campaign -- which had a lot of scandals -- is that his campaign employed a full-time campaign worker whose organization had been shut down by the u.s. government during world war ii because it was an american fascist organization. the guy's name was allen zoll. he reorganized himself into something called the national council for american education, which investigated american universities for subversion and tried to shut them down for being communist or whatever. he put out pamphlets with titles like "they want your child." allen zoll also somewhat famously testified in congress that felix frankfurter shouldn't be