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United States. Subversive Activities Control Board. Reports of the Subversive Activities Control Board. Washington. United States Government Printing Office. 1966. Vol. 1, p. 486-489, 492, 510, 516, 5
{{Cquote|these gymnosophist nudist colonies furnish excellent opportunities for experiments along [[socialist]] lines ... Customary nudity is impossible under existing undemocratic, social and economic and political organization.}}
{{Cquote|these gymnosophist nudist colonies furnish excellent opportunities for experiments along [[socialist]] lines ... Customary nudity is impossible under existing undemocratic, social and economic and political organization.}}
There was actually outside of Washington, D.C., the ''Washington Outdoor Club'', composed of a number of government planners and others which had in an isolated glen practiced nudism while playing tennis, volley ball and other games. These facts were brought to Vice President Wallace's attention by Chairman [[Martin Dies]] of [[HUAC]] and Dr. Parmalee was eased out of BEW, but moved into another New Deal bureau. <ref>''The Roosevelt Myth'', Book 3, Ch. 6, [http://www.rooseveltmyth.com/cgi-bin/framed/2767/book/fdrmyth_Chapter_Six___A_Boondoggler_s_Dr.htm ''A Boondoggler's Dream''], John T. Flynn, Fox and Wilkes, 1948.</ref>
There was actually outside of Washington, D.C., the ''Washington Outdoor Club'', composed of a number of government planners and others which had in an isolated glen practiced nudism while playing tennis, volley ball and other games. These facts were brought to Vice President Wallace's attention by Chairman [[Martin Dies]] of [[House Un-American Activities Committee]] and Dr. Parmalee was eased out of BEW, but moved into another New Deal bureau. <ref>''The Roosevelt Myth'', Book 3, Ch. 6, [http://www.rooseveltmyth.com/cgi-bin/framed/2767/book/fdrmyth_Chapter_Six___A_Boondoggler_s_Dr.htm ''A Boondoggler's Dream''], John T. Flynn, Fox and Wilkes, 1948.</ref>
==Dr. John Bovingdon==
A new chief economist and another nudist<ref>[http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/ah/1991/3/1991_3_83_print.shtml Black and White and Red], Jack El-Hai, ''American Heritage Magazine, May/June 1991 Volume 42, Issue 3.</ref>, Dr. John Bovingdon, was brought. in, Dr. John Bovingdon. In 1931 the police in Los Angeles raided a Communist event Bovingdon was staging. Bovingdon was shaken, went to Russia and got a job in Moscow as a journalist. Upon his return to the United States, ''The Western Worker'', a Communist organ, wrote February 7, 1935: "John Bovingdon...having recently returned from the Soviet Union, will give a lecture ...The affair is being arranged by the [[Friends of Soviet Russia]] <ref>United States. Subversive Activities Control Board. [http://ets.umdl.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=usfexec;cc=usfexec;q1=Friends%20of%20Soviet%20Russia;rgn=full%20text;idno=81242.0001.001;didno=81242.0001.001;view=image;seq=498;page=root;size=l;endseq=3;frm=frameset; Reports of the Subversive Activities Control Board]. Washington. United States Government Printing Office. 1966. Vol. 1, p. 486-489, 492, 510, 516, 537.</ref>
under whose auspices Bovingdon is touring this country." In January, 1938, he appeared in Long Beach, California, at the town's first "Communist Party celebration on the 14th anniversary of Lenin's death."
==Feud with Hull==
==Feud with Hull==