Word: franke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Loyalty Check. In Newark, Frank Churak explained why he had turned in a false fire alarm: he only wanted to see if his wife would stand by him when police arrived...
...surface, the lives of J. Robert and Frank Oppenheimer resembled a brotherly game of follow-the-leader. Robert became a nuclear physicist; so did Frank, who is nine years younger. Robert helped invent the atomic bomb; Frank went to work on the A-bomb project. Last week the brothers appeared before congressional investigating committees, but beyond that there was no similarity in their performances...
Confession. The man who trudged up to Capitol Hill on the following day displayed none of Robert Oppenheimer's crisp confidence. He knew what was coming. A few days before taking the stand, thin, 36-year-old Frank Oppenheimer resigned his post as assistant professor of physics at the University of Minnesota and his resignation had been promptly accepted. He sat uneasily before the House Committee on Un-American Activities and talked about the mistake he and his wife Jacquinette had made twelve years before...
...story that Witness Oppenheimer had called a "complete fabrication" when the Washington Times-Herald printed it two years ago. Last week he admitted that it was true: in 1937 Frank and Jacquinette, naively looking for a cure for the world's woes, had joined the Communist Party; they had quit, disillusioned, 3½ years later. During the war he worked on atomic projects in California, at Oak Ridge and at the Los Alamos laboratory run by his brother Robert, and had received a letter of praise from Major General Leslie R. Groves, wartime chief of the atomic-bomb program...
...CRIMSON would like to point out that President Conant, and the Corporation, through the agency of Grenville Clark's letter to Frank B. Ober, has specifically repudiated any "witch-hunts" or Inquiries into the political beliefs of the Faculty...