Word: ferguson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Begge, John William, Crocker, William Tufts, Flagg, Washington Allston. Jr., Holden, William Hall, House, Theodore Grant, Mitchell, William Foster, Morgan, John Casimir, Jr., Watkins, Ernest Lyndon, Ferguson, Oliver Drayton (Manager...
...Walter Reuther wasn't quite sure either: "The same people who paid to have me shot paid to have my brother shot and for the same reason. They could be diehard elements among employers, or they could be Communist or fascist agents." Michigan Senators Arthur Vandenberg and Homer Ferguson guessed that it was the Communists (the party hotly denied it), got the U.S. Senate to call for FBI investigation. Others guessed that it might be the work of some crackpot, either anti-union or a U.A.W. man soured by bitter fights within the union...
Glaring at a list of 500 AEC scholarship-holders, Michigan's Homer Ferguson demanded to be told how many Communists there were among them. "Perhaps as many as three," Lilienthal admitted. One of these, explained Dr. Shields Warren, AEC's director of biology and medicine, was "an outstanding student" named Isador Edelman. Edelman, 29, had applied for a fellowship at the University of California's Berkeley laboratory (where he would have been close to secret work), had been turned down because an FBI check disclosed "derogatory information." But because he "showed extraordinary promise," AEC granted...
Senator Homer Ferguson (R.Mich.) added the hearing was "an investigation of Dr. Edelman." Chairman Joseph C. O'Mahoney (D.Wy.) said. "You were merely asked here because your name had been mentioned...
Several witnesses agreed the loyalty should be the prime test even in non-classified fields, and Senator Ferguson (R-Mich) suggested that Edelman be called in to testify on his own behalf...