Word: allene
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Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. '38, associate professor of History, whom Allen described as a "good friend of the Committee," said that "the Francis Sweeny Committee has done much valuable work before and after the war in exposing anti-semetic, fascist, and crypto-Communist groups...
...Allen said his investigation would proceed on a slow, factual basis. He plans to collect all material on Lynch's background in an attempt to find out if he has any connection with Alderson Zoll, compiler of the Reducators list, and the National Council for American Education, the publisher. He would then publicize this material...
...Francis Sweeny Committee, supported by many faculty members, started a long term investigation of City Councillor John Lynch yesterday which, Charles R. Allen, associate director, believes will defeat him in next year's city election...
Lynch's motion favoring distribution of "Reducators," which lists 68 faculty members as "Communists, Communist sympathizers, or fellow travelers," and his bill aimed at forcing all Cambridge Communists to register with the police prompted the action, Allen stated...
...Editor Allen, the sixth man to hold the post, thinks that Harper's present circulation (159,357) is adequate, though he frankly wishes he "had the wit to get more without doing anything I consider unworthy of the magazine." With or without wit, Editor Allen can still attract top-notch writers for bottom-drawer rates. The probable reason, says Allen, is that "we deliberately edit for a minority of educated . . . people . . . the real leaders of America. We do not [try to] appeal to the millions of people who do not really know how to read or care to make...