Word: colorados
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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INTERIOR Secretary McKay, worried over charges that he opposes the development of natural resources, will soon announce support for two gigantic power and irrigation projects for the West. One is the Frying Pan-Arkansas project to transport water eastward from Frying Pan Creek, a tributary of the Colorado, through a tunnel under the Continental Divide to the Arkansas River, south of Denver. The other is the Upper Colorado project, calling for the building of ten dams, which could rival lower Colorado's Hoover (Boulder) Dam project, distribute water and power to Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Idaho and New Mexico. McKay...
Political enemies of Thornton, headed by State Senator Morton G. Wyatt, used information secretly obtained from the report to attack Thornton and his appointee, Colorado University President Robert L. Stearns. After Stearns had declared there were no "subversives" on the University faculty, Wyatt named three on the libel free halls of the State Senate, and demanded they be fired. The speech, branded by the Lieutenant-Governor as "nauseating" led Thornton supporters to rush to the aid of the University, while supporters of civil liberties demanded that the two-year old report, compiled by former FBI agents, be either released...
...Thornton and Stearns are keeping them locked in the safe. They claim they "must be kept secret for the protection of innocent as well as punishment of those guilty." Yet as long as it is hush-hush, every faculty member of Colorado University is subject to the same treatment Senator Wyatt dished out last March...
Wyatt's behavior stirred new protests that the secrecy of the report made it possible for all sorts of gossip to be spread. A Colorado faculty committee, including three Deans, urged the Board of Regents to destroy it. The Denver Post recommended five of the copies be burned, and the sixth sent to the FBI for use in its own files "under statuary safeguards against improper...
Although the administrations of a number of colleges, including Colorado and Brooklyn, have abolished left wing groups, this is the first instance on record of students themselves trying to do so. The President of the University, the Wisconsin Board of Regents, and the student council have repeatedly said the LYL chapter has a right to exist as long as it kept within the law. Wisconsin's Daily Cardinal said the YGOP had "grossby violated universally accepted principles of free discussion...