Word: cp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proposing new internal security legislation. On February 25, the committee questioned Robert Gorham Davis '29, professor of English at Smith and teacher at Harvard from 1933 to 1943. Davis gave the HUAC the names of ten former and one present Harvard Faculty members who had been in a CP cell with him before the second World War. Wendell Furry was the one man still at Harvard named by Davis...
...following day, Furry made the first of four appearances before Congressional investigating committees and, although he denied that he was then a member of the Communist Party, he refused to answer all questions relating to previous CP activity. He justified his silence by the fifth amendment. That night Provost Paul H. Buck issued a statement: "Professor Wendell H. Furry's reported refusal to answer questions put to him by the House Committee on Un-American Activities will be given full and deliberate consideration by the Harvard University authorities...
Down the hall are the offices of HUAC's investigators. One office has a large wall map of the United States. Red pins in the map show the location of Communist Party headquarters. A large illustrated chart of the American CP hangs in another office. The rather grandmotherly face of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, chairman of the Party, occupies the center of the top row of this chart. She is surrounded by the faces of other Party higher-ups, most of whom look surly...