Word: griswold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Dwight Palmer Griswold, 60, Republican U.S. Senator from Nebraska since January 1953, three-term governor of Nebraska (1941-47); of a coronary occlusion; in Bethesda...
When he was questioned by the Investigating Committee about the Lubell dispute last year in which Sears demanded that Dean Griswold fire twin Law students David and Jonathan Lubell for invoking the Fifth Amendment, the Boston lawyer said...
...Sears' public statement to Griswold last year, he made no mention of any scholarship fund, and charged that the Lubells have "proven themselves unfit for admission to the bar of any of our states and, of course, unfit to continue as students at the Harvard Law School. They have, it seems to me, clearly disqualified themselves from further membership in your student body...
...Dean Griswold, replying to that attack stated that "suppressing an organization is a very serious step. The local activity of this group of students does not seem to warrant such drastic action." Griswold also accused Sears of "highly discourteous action" in making his letter public
Early in February, Griswold attacked one-man subcommittees in a speech before the Massachusetts Bar Association at Springfield. At the same time he upheld the right of witnesses before Congressional committees to invoke the Fifth Amendment