Word: amdur
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...M.I.T. case broke into the headlines on April 22, when William T. Martin, head of the Mathematics department and Isador Amdur, professor of Chemistry, told the Un-American Activities Commit in open session that they had joined the Communist party in 1938 but quit in 1946 and 1944 respectively. Martin named Norman Levinson, associate professor of Mathematics, and Professors Arguimbau and Struik as members of the cell...
...Executive Committee of the M.I.T. Corporation," it opened, "decided today that Professors Martin, Amdur and Levinson who testified freely and cooperatively before the House Un-American Activities Committee, will be continued at the Institute without change of status and in good standing...
...Amdur testified that he had been a Communist for six years prior to 1944. Martin stated that he had joined the party in 1938 and quit it in 1946 when he decided the party was doing nothing to help the world's unfortunate...
...faculty members are William Ted Martin, head of the mathematics division, Isadore Amdur, associate professor of Chemistry, and Norman Levinson, professor of Mathematics. All three talked willingly of their past associations and mentioned other supposed Communists, including Wendell Furry, professor of Physics...
Martin and Amdur included the following men formerly associated with the University: Carl Grossenbacher, described as holding a minor position here; John H. Reynolds, believed to be at a Florida university; and Marcus Singer reportedly a zoologist. Amdur also named Richard Edsall, but was not certain whether he had been at the University...