Word: colorados
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attempt to discredit the Governor of Colorado by claiming his state University harbored "Communistic, subversive professors" failed last March, but only after a month-long storm in that state's education and politics. Center of the controversy was the University of Colorado's top-secret report on "subversive" professors, which Governor Dan Thornton had ordered compiled but refused to make public...
...both the nation's industry and its best-known names. In addition to such old valley residents as chemical makers Du Pont, Hercules and Atlas, the long list of newcomers includes Chrysler (with its $19 million tank plant at Newark, Del.), National Biscuit (a $10 million plant), Colorado Fuel & Iron (a $50 million works). Among other new industries: textiles, plastics, rubber, smelting...
...David Hawkins, associate professor of philosophy at the University of Colorado (now at Harvard on a fellowship), testified that he joined the Communist Party in 1938, dropped out about two months before he went to work at Los Alamos in 1943. As the historian of the Manhattan Project, he had access to much top-secret material. Asked Indiana's Bill Jenner, committee chairman: "Did you tell any authorities in 1943 that you were a member of the Communist Party before you went to Los Alamos?" Answered Hawkins: "I did not. Nobody asked me . . . They asked me what organizations...
...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...
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 "grossly violated universally accepted principles of free discussion...