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...significance attached to Truman by the Republican opposition was attested by the G.O.P.'s first countermove: Michigan's Senator Homer Ferguson, Iowa's Senator Bourke Hickenlooper and South Dakota's Senator Francis Case joined to form a Republican "Truth Squad," set out to follow Truman through the same whistle stops and present the Republican rebuttal to his "facts." The Republican vigilance was thoroughly justified; the President was engaged in a no-holds-barred assault on the Republican Party's strongest asset. At Montana's Tiber Dam, Truman pushed down a plunger setting...
Last week 22 more teachers turned up in Manhattan's Foley Square Federal Courthouse to testify before the Senate subcommittee investigating Communism in U.S. schools (TIME, Sept. 22). Over & over again, Michigan's Senator Homer Ferguson and Committee Counsel Robert Morris put the main question: Are you now, or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party...
Only three of the witnesses denied that they had ever been Communists. Among the 18 who refused an answer was Frederic Ewen, who retired from his position as assistant professor of English at Brooklyn College rather than state his politics. He finally did admit, after Senator Ferguson reassured him that he was not incriminating himself, that he was an air-raid warden during World War II. Asked whether he had ever used an alias, another of the 18. German Professor Harry Slochower of Brooklyn College, rejoined: "Do you mean like when you go somewhere with someone? That is an embarrassing...
...formally resigned from the party. "Brother," he was told, "you don't resign . . . You are expelled." "This pall has been hanging over me for twelve or more years," he went on. "I cannot live with it any more." Said Senator Ferguson: "It is very refreshing to realize that there has finally been a place that you could come to . . . that a man can come in and testify and free his soul...
Unimpressed by all the lecturing by the teachers, Senator Ferguson recessed the hearings. He plans an early return, to give Radzie and the reluctant New Yorkers another chance to give some straight answers...