Word: communist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...final committee report threw out all charges except that Gundlach had refused to answer a question put to him by President Allen as to his membership in the Communist Party. It found that Gundlach's equivocation on this issue, together with his "unsatisfactory relations" with the university administration, constituted neglect of only and were sufficient grounds for dismissal. Four members out of, 11 dissented from this opinion President Allen found the majority report to his liking. As did the Board of Regents...
Finally, in the cases of Eby, Ethel, and Jacobs, all 11 members of the faculty committee recommended that the tenure of these men "remain undisturbed." All three of the accused men were former Communists and frankly admitted it. They all also claimed that they were no longer members of the Communist Party...
...reports and through the technicalities of interpretation of the tenure code, some facts can be readily spelled out. The most important of these is that the three dismissed professors lost their jobs because of political activity. This activity was membership in, or, in Gundiach's case, sympathy with, the Communist Party. Likewise, it is certain that the three men on probation are in this unenviable position because of their former affiliation with the Communist Party...
Throughout the testimony much was made of the answers of the various defendants to the question posed by Dr. Allen as to membership in the Communist Party. No one on the committee ever challenged Dr. Allen's right to ask this question...
Congressional investigators turned up testimony yesterday that a wartime atomic scientist was "an active Communist" and that federal agents removed two bars of uranium from an atomic plant without being detected. These were the high points in a day of many-aided atomic investigation on Capital Bill...