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...four months investigation of the charges followed and Glasser was of officially absolved of the specific charges of Communism and espionage, although he was declared negligent in his handling of department files...
After retirement from the OPA in 1946, Glasser served for a brief time in a New York law firm and then obtained an appointment on the Rugers Law faculty...
...charges of espionage were revived at periodic intervals, however. A special grand jury in New York City is reported to have considered the accusations in 1947 but took no action in the matter and did not even call Glasser as a witness...
...years later a sub poem for his appearance was issued by the Un-American Activities committee and then withdrawn. In 1950 both the New York Dally News and columnist Fulton Lewis published articles repeating the spy charges against Glasser. As the Rutgers faculty committee which later reviewed the case pointed out, this long series of incidents apparently developed a feeling of harassment in Glasser's mind and a sharp antagonism toward investigative groups...
...matter finally reached the critical stage in March, 1953, when a spokesman for the Un-American Activities Committee called Glasser a "serious malefactor," and he was ordered to testify before the committee in Washington. Several months previously the Rutgers board of trustees had adopted its policy of regarding use of the Fifth Amendment as valid cause for dismissal, so that Glasser went before the committee with the knowledge that refusal to testify would almost certainly prejudice his position in the University...