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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fishing for a way to open its long-planned investigation of the controversial Fund for the Republic, the House Committee on Un-American Activities last week harpooned Author John Cogley, pulled him to Washington to make some explanations. Commissioned two years ago by the fund to survey political blacklisting in the entertainment world, Cogley had resigned as editor of the liberal Catholic magazine, the Commonweal, selected ten assistants, undertaken a twelve-month study. Published last month, Cogley's report found that blacklisting of Communists, "unrehabilitated" ex-Communists and Commie liners was 1) "almost universally accepted as a fact...
...Manhattan the Fund for the Republic's President Robert M. Hutchins was shocked and indignant at the committee's questions and methods; e.g., it promised Cogley a private hearing, then yanked him without aides or counsel into the open hearing. The New York Times bristled editorially that the hearing came "perilously close" to being an effort "to intimidate a man for writing what he believes." There was no doubt that the committee's heavyhandedness had weakened its case. Likewise, there was little doubt that Congress had every right to eye the major activities of a tax-exempt...
...richest ($2.5 billion) philanthropic organization in the world, the Ford Foundation supports hundreds of projects and some have raised storms of controversy. Last week one autonomous subsidiary, the Fund for the Republic, was locked in battle with a congressional committee because of its wobbly approach to the problem of Communism (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Ignoring its offspring's noisy troubles, the foundation quietly beefed up its command, picked a new president to succeed able Lawyer H. Rowan Gaither Jr., who continues only as the foundation's board chairman. The foundation's new boss: Henry Townley Heald, president...
...congressional investigators; he declared in 1953 that "it is just as inappropriate to issue blanket condemnation of investigating committees as it is for the members of such committees to make irresponsible charges against individuals or institutions." Heald disagrees basically with the stand taken by such educators as the Fund for the Republic's Robert Hutchins, who once declared that he would not necessarily fire a Communist professor unless he were incompetent and indoctrinating his classes...
...Veteran Fund Raiser Heald will preside over the distribution of funds which have totaled more than $800 million since 1950. One of his earliest and most pleasant tasks: disbursement of the $260 million bonanza, deriving from last year's sale of Ford Motor Co. stock, to all accredited private colleges and universities-including $5,000,000 to N.Y.U...