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...Counsel Jenkins made a sweeping ruling that seemed to let Joe off the hook. Said Jenkins: "It is elementary that the Senator does not have to reveal the name of his informant. . . Otherwise, law-enforcement officers would be so hamstrung . . . that they would never be able to ferret out crime...
Taste for Growth. Finding uranium in fertilizer is just the kind of moneymaking operation that International Minerals and its bald, bouncing President Louis Ware specialize in. Ware, who learned the mining business from the shovel up, is a combination of scientist and hardheaded businessman, thinks researchers can ferret out untold new products hidden in the earth's drabbest minerals...
Shea charged that at least one of the other organizers of the League had "acted in bad faith," and meant to use the organization to ferret out Communists...
Nearly a score of undergraduates yesterday supported Quinlan J. Shea '56 as legitimate organizer and spokesman of the prospective Harvard Conservative League and asserted that they intend to ferret out any Communists among the faculty and students despite warning from the Dean's Office...
...clear statement of its intentions. A new group can not ordinarily be expected to make a policy declaration so early in its life, but now, with reports of diverging interests within the group, the need is vital. Kenneth D. Robertson '29, an outspoken advocate of an organization to ferret out the Communist he thinks the University harbors, has stated that he wants a group of undergraduate "scouts" to report subversive statements made by members of the Faculty and the student body. One of the key students in the formation of the Conservative League last night admitted that...