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Says Nobel Prizewinner Harold C. Urey: "The difficulties in securing visas for foreign scientists .... threaten to make all satisfactory contact between American and European scientists impossible in the near future." Says Nobelman Arthur H. Compton, Chancellor of Washington University: "One of the greatest assets of the United States in the century past has been the freedom of our scientists -. . . to invite others to bring their ideas personally to us ... In a period when our welfare and safety depend on maintaining . . . leadership, it is of double importance that this freedom in the exchange of ideas be maintained...
...Albert Einstein. 2. Owen Lattimore. 3. Arthur Compton...
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...Navy officer, told what happened in northeastern Texas' Rusk County: "By majority vote I was elected one of the delegates to the state convention. A resolution endorsing Dwight D. Eisenhower and instructing the state convention delegates to vote in his favor was seconded by [County Chairman] Joe Compton and carried by 13 t01 ... There was no walkout-no rump convention . . . Later that week, Compton, a longtime friend of Henry Zweifel's, received instructions to file a false return on that convention, naming a Taft slate of delegates and claiming a resolution had been passed endorsing Taft. When Compton...
...Reed, Ballantine will face another sort of problem. In spite of the college's academic standing (among its former professors: Paul Douglas, Karl T. Compton), it still has more than the usual trouble raising money. Among the reasons: some local citizens, with no justification whatsoever, unfairly suspect its reputation for lively liberalism, and some still labor under the false suspicion that Communist John Reed founded it* and that its first president, William T. Foster, was really Communist William Z. In four years...