Word: conant
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...cleared himself on both counts, explaining that be objected to investigation only because he felt it would be necessary to adopt police state methods in the universities if hidden communists were to be ferreted out. Conant said his article had actually urged youth to return to the American tradition...
...further objection to the appointment raised earlier was the unfavorable reception Conant would receive in Germany. Optimistic quote from German newspapers were used as rebuttal...
Days of violent controversy over the Conant choice ended early this week when he replied to the four specific objections that had been raised to his appointment in his testimony before the committee...
Senator Joseph R. McCarthy (R.Wis) charges Conant with religious bias on the basis of a speech he delivered in Boston last spring, which supposedly attacked Catholic parochial schools. Actually Conant explained, he objects only to public tax money being given to private schools...
...Conant's alleged softness towards Communism was another major point of dissension in the fight for approval of his appointment. This charge was mainly the result of his views on congressional investigation of college faculties, and his article on radicalism published in the Atlantic Monthly...