Word: departmental
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Armed with Roosevelt's assurance that he would soon be moving into Woodring's job, Assistant Secretary Johnson began acting like the No. 1 man in fact. Isolationist Harry Woodring resisted every move toward U.S. intervention abroad, and Assistant Secretary Louis Johnson fought him at every turn. With...
Under this system, a candidate for a faculty position must be approved by his department before his application ever reaches the Yale Corporation level.
A strong department will almost invariably fight a corporation rejection, the young scholars know. Therefore the young men in these departments have very little fear of being refused an appointment on groundless charges. They know their department will demand to know the charges and will help fight any injustice.
On the other hand, young men in a weak department cannot be certain of such support. Thus, the fight of FBI and University tactics is strongest in the weak departments. Most young scholars say that some day they may want to teach.
The young faculty members and the graduate students interviewed all stated that no one had objections to the FBI's loyalty checks on men who had applied for government jobs. These checks are made in the open by the known FBI agents. Usually several of the higher members of the...