Word: huac
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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April--Furry voluntarily sends an affidavit to Chairman Velde explaining his political activity in the past two years (1951-53) and then appears for the second time before the HUAC in Washington to testify that he has not been a Communist since 1951. He invokes the fifth amendment in refusing to answer all other questions...
February--Wendell Furry appears before a congressional committee for the first time. Testifying before the HUAC in Washington he refuses to answer questions, invoking the fifth amendment. The Harvard Corporation faces a crisis; what action should be taken regarding Furry...
March--The Corporation reviews the transcript of Furry's testimony before the Velde Committee (HUAC...
...wide speeches (the last on election eve in which he castigated Harvard Faculty members who supported Stevenson, particularly Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., '38, then associate professor of History, and Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory. After the Eisenhower landslide, former Communist Granville Hicks, in testimony before the HUAC, gave an eyewitness' evidence that a cell of the Communist Party had indeed flourished at Harvard during the thirties. And within a week, Committee Chairman Harold Velde announced that his committee would postpone its investigations of defense installations, munitions labs, and Hollywood hanky-panky in order to "get the Reds...
...Velde Committee began to seek out and identify Communists in education, supposedly as a prelude to proposing new internal security legislation. On February 25, the committee questioned Robert Gorham Davis '29, professor of English at Smith and teacher at Harvard from 1933 to 1943. Davis gave the HUAC the names of ten former and one present Harvard Faculty members who had been in a CP cell with him before the second World War. Wendell Furry was the one man still at Harvard named by Davis...