Word: jenner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lubell attacked the CRIMSON editorial which argued that he was more than a political risk, but a possible subversive. Claiming that he was willing to answer questions anytime about any possible subversive activities, Lubell said he was questioned by the Jenner Committee for only one purpose, to find my alleged political ideas and activities...
...called before the Jenner Committee for only one reason--my alleged political ideas and activities. There were no questions of conspiracy to advocate the overthrow of the government by force and violence, no questions of espionage--all of which I was ready and am now ready to answer at any time under oath. The 'sensational' investigation concerned only political views are activities--brief writing for the National Lawyers Guild, support of a Building Service Employees strike at Cornell University, as editorial in the Law School Record condemning Congressional investigations of education. It also concerned other alleged views and activities which...
...Kirtley Mather, professor of Geology, a committee of the American Council on Education yesterday unanimously voted down a resolution endorsing the Jenner Committee's investigations of communism in American colleges...
...sole purpose of the Jenner Committee was to put the finger on individuals who would use the Fifth Amendment to refuse answers and thus bring into public gaze individuals who would be barbecued," Mather charged. "Jenner called about 100 witnesses fully knowing that at least 80 of them would fall back on the Fifth Amendment," Mather claimed...
Harvard's Dr. Helen Deane Markham, who has been in & out of her job as assistant professor of anatomy because of her refusal to say whether she is or has ever been a Communist, was in again. When Dr. Markham clammed up before the Jenner Subcommittee last March, the Corporation of the University cleared her of Red affiliations, announced she would keep her job. Then an FBI undercover agent identified Dr. Markham and her husband as Communists; Harvard reopened the case, suspended her with...