Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hughes charges that Commission members have been instrumental in enlisting multi-million dollar, tax-exempt foundations behind attempts to tamper with freedom of the press in the United States."
Zechariah Chafee, Jr., Langdell Professor of Law; William E. Hocking, Alford Professor of Philosophy, emeritus; Archibald MacLeish, Law School graduate; Reinhold Niebuhr, University preacher; and Arthur M. Schlesinger, professor of History are five members of the twelve-man commission. They all figure prominently in the Tribune article, as did other...
Attacking Hughes' article at its heart, Mayer claims that no foundations at all were involved in the survey made by the Commission. He quoted from the group's reports to prove that it did not propose curtailment of free press.
The Tribune article concluded its case against the Commission by saying that "these 12 professors repeated the accusation in their report that newspaper owners and workers possess the unconscious arrogance of conscious wealth."
This statement, said Mayer, is "a misrepresentation of a misquotation from William Allan White." Furthermore, he added that not all the commission members were professors.