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...Supreme Court ordered Brooklyn College to reinstate Professor Harry Slochower, who had been a prickly, evasive, smart-aleck witness as he pleaded the Fifth Amendment before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee. The court ruling invalidated a New York City charter requirement for automatic dismissal of any city employee taking the Fifth. Justice John Marshall Harlan, dissenting, wrote that the court majority had "unduly circumscribed the power of the state to insure the qualifications of its teachers...
Brooklyn College's Professor Harry Slochower was an evasive, smart-aleck witness before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee. When Slochower, teacher of German and literature and an authority on Thomas Mann, appeared before the subcommittee in 1952, he was asked, for example, if he could identify any members of the Communist Party. Retorted Slochower: "I am sure Joe Stalin is a member." Slochower invoked the Fifth Amendment three times in refusing to say whether he had been a Communist in 1940 and 1941. He was fired by Brooklyn College under a New York City charter provision that requires automatic...
...gentleman and Hoosier, I resent your publishing an article in your Feb. 27 issue about "Blabbin Bill" and placing it under the heading Indiana. If you want to make Senator William Jenner's followers ashamed of themselves for supporting such a smart aleck-all right, but why embarrass the rest...
Movius termed the newspapers' connection of Hurzeler's discovery and the Darwinian theory "completely and absolutely unjustified." He referred to the reports of Hurzeler's lectures as a "silly kind of smart-aleck journalism...
Your Feb. 6 article on the late H. L. Mencken was excellent. Very erudite people probably will always go on recognizing him as a literary genius, but from your account, and others, I think he must have been a rude, discourteous smart aleck...