Word: allens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Upon the recommendation of its president, Raymond B. Allen, the board of regents of the University of Washington fired three professors because of membership in the Communist Party or Communist sympathy...
...high regard for due process" hailed by such ordinarily enlightened writers as Dorothy Thompson actually points t a very different verdict. Dr. Allen's recommendations were based on the investigation made by the faculty committee on tenure. But the investigators' recommendations disagree with Allen's in all but on case. Dr. Allen holds that membership in the Communist Party, per sc, constitutes incompetence to teach. On the basis of the same evidence, gathered in 33 meetings, the faculty committee found that in two of the three cases this...
Into the Opposition. Some Congressmen were quick to say they would not buy labor's dream. Louisiana Democrat Allen J. Ellender said that the President's bill would leave the nation defenseless against John L. Lewis. Faithful old New Dealer Elbert D. Thomas, chairman of the Senate labor committee, would try to hustle the bill on to the floor but there it would run into a coalition of Republicans and conservative Democrats. There were signs that the Administration itself, having made a down payment on its debt to labor, wouldn't mind too much...
...Washington professor had already resigned because "of the conspicuous violation of the proper processes for deciding issues of freedom and tenure . . ." Forty-six Princeton graduate students sent a telegram to President Raymond B. Allen denouncing the whole affair. A Students' Organization for Academic Rights had sprung up overnight on the Washington campus. Last week, hundreds of students, accompanied by a handful of faculty members, crowded into the University Unitarian Church for a protest meeting...
...firings had been unjustified, it could put the University of Washington on its "blacklist" by censuring the administration-a move that might discourage other A.A.U.P. members from accepting faculty appointments there. If, on the other hand, it approved the dismissals, the A.A.U.P. would in effect be standing behind Allen's own definition of academic freedom...