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Then Fast was stopped at City College. Dean John J. Theobald gave the same reasons presented by Columbia and Brooklyn...
Canwell imported the same group of witnesses that had been used at almost all other investigations of un-American activities. These witnesses included J. B. Matthews, former investigator for the Dies Committee, a Hearst journalist and the list of "reformed Communists" such as Benjamin Gitlow and George Hewitt. During the course of the committee hearings not only were members of the Washington faculty accused but such other figures as J. Robert Oppenheimer of the Princeton Institute of advanced study, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. '38, of Harvard, and General Dwight D. Eisenhower, were mentioned as men who "fronted" for Communists...
...time that Canwell was conducting the investigation at the University, public reaction against his methods began to form. Educators and even other legislators complained of the inability of the accused to defend themselves. J. Alfred Schweppe, former dean of the University law school and a past president of the Washington bar, complained that the Canwell Committee itself was "un-American." One of the professors accused of being a Communist, Herbert Phillips, was prevented from replying to the "are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?" question with anything but a yes or no answer...
...J. Engene Nelson, who was to have joined Dr. Saul Hertz of the Medical School in a project to apply unclear physics to medicine, was killed with his wife. Anne Elizabeth, when their light plane crashed near Pine Plains New York Sunday night...
Arrangements for the Dunces, whose only uniform is a crimson-bow-tie, are by J. Fairley McDinald...