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...A.B.A. session, Harvard Law School's Dean Erwin N. Griswold and Seattle Attorney Tracy E. Griffin took precisely opposite stands on what should be done about lawyers who cite the Fifth Amendment. Griffin said flatly that all such lawyers should be disbarred: "Obtaining the truth from a witness, establishing a fact material to the security of the U.S., is more important to the general welfare and the public as a whole than the prosecution of a single individual for his specific crime." Replied Dean Griswold: "Lawyers should be leading spokesmen in trying to explain that sometimes a lawyer...
...says Williams, "the public has frequently read of witnesses who invoke the Fifth Amendment, particularly before congressional committees, but thereupon issue statements to the press that they are innocent of any crime . . . This practice has recently received impressive sanction in the form of an article by Dean Erwin N. Griswold of the Harvard Law School, in which he maintains that a man innocent of any crime may rightfully use the privilege when questioned concerning past membership in the Communist Party...
...Griswold article to which Williams refers was also circulated under Fund for the Republic auspices. It introduced a hypothetical college professor, innocent of any crime on the statute books, who once joined the Communist Party, participated only in study-group activities, became disillusioned and left the party at the outbreak of the Korean war. The professor was later questioned by a congressional committee. Wrote Dean...
...Benjamin Coates, 37, was elected president of W. & J. Sloane, one of the nation's top quality-furniture chains, ousting W.E.S. Griswold Jr. in a family fight against the old management. John Sloane, 72-year-old grandson of the founder, also resigned as board chairman. The changes climaxed a three-year-long family fight over control of the 112-year-old company. Coates, a Philadelphia financier who married John Sloane's daughter in 1944, served on the board of the family firm, finally quit in 1951, convinced that W. & J. Sloane (which operates nine stores, from Beverly Hills...
...effort to stiffen its academic program, Yale has recently adopted a new plan for its arts and sciences curriculum. The program is an outgrowth of a report made in 1953 by President A. Whitney Griswold, stressing the importance of greater student interest in academic work...