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...Barrows Dunham, Princeton graduate and chairman of Temple's Philosophy Department, was called before the Velde Committee on February 28, 1953, on suspicion of subversive activity. Dunham gave his name to the committee, but refused to reveal any other information--not even his occupation or educational background--under the terms of the Fifth Amendment...
...rapid subsequent action, Temple officials, suspended Dunham, called him before their loyalty committee, and finally dismissed him from the faculty, on a Pennsylvania law providing for a loyalty oath...
Sawyer told the CRIMSON that there "definitely were legal questions involved about Dunham's use of the Fifth Amendment." Dismissing him on these without a hearing about them was, however, according to Sawyer, "unfair," Since he was Investigated both by Velde and Temple on the grounds of subversion, which has never been substantiated. The main questions, which might, according to the Civil Liberties Union, be the basis of action against Dunham, If he were to be tried on them, would be 1: Was this a case of illegal use of the protective guarantees of the Fifth Amendment? and 2: Were...
...Although Dunham, according to Sawyer, "quit the Communist around 1946," in 1947 he wrote a book, "Man Against Myth-an analysis of social superstitions," which the New York' Times Book Review called a distortion of "history to fit the Procrustean bed of his Marxist convictions...
Also cited by the House were Barrows Dunham, Temple University philosophy professor, whose case appears in detail elsewhere in the paper; two public school teachers, Wilbur Leo Mahaney, Jr., Trappe, Pa., and Mrs. Goldic E. Watson, of Philadelphia; Ole Fagerhaugh, Oak-land, California, warehouseman, John T. Watkins, Rock Island, Illinois, official of the Farm Equipment Workers Union, CIO, and Francis X.T. Crowley of New York City...