Word: huac
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...congressional committees geared up for an investigation into the communist influence on the nation’s campuses—the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), chaired by Rep. Harold Velde, R-Ill., and the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, chaired by Sen. William Jenner...
...spring of 1953, the investigations touched Harvard when Robert G. Davies ’29, then a professor of English at Smith College, testified before the HUAC that he had been part of a communist cell of 15 faculty members when he taught at Harvard in the 1930s...
When Furry himself appeared before Velde’s committee in February and again in April, he told the HUAC he was not currently a member of the Communist Party, but did not answer questions about his activities before 1951, invoking his Fifth Amendment right to remain silent...
...according to Brandeis historian Morton Keller, co-author of Making Harvard Modern: The Rise of America’s University, when Furry invoked the Fifth before the HUAC, Conant wanted the Corporation to revoke his tenure...