Word: lewises
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The day after Glasser's testimony, Lewis Webster Jones, president of the University, termed his actions "clearly in conflict with the policies of the University" and suspended him with pay, pending an investigation of the case by a special faculty committee and by the board of trustees.
The problem of Fulbright fellowships first came prominently to McCarthy's attention in June of 1952 when Professor Napthali Lewis of Brooklyn College and his wife both appeared as witnesses before a New York session of the Senate Permanent Investigating sub-committee, of which McCarthy was then the sole member...
Mrs. Lewis, herself a former teacher at Brooklyn College, invoked the Fifth Amendment on several occasions in answer to McCarthy's questions as to whether she had been a member of the Communist Party, had hold Communist Cell meetings in her own home, or had attended Communist meetings elsewhere. McCarthy...
Lewis, in testimony later in the day, stated flatly that he was not a member of the Communist Party, had never attended party meetings with his wife, and had no knowledge of party meetings in his home. He refused however, to discuss his wife's alleged membership in the party...
Terming the holder of a Fulbright grant "an ambassador of good will," McCarthy then asked Lewis whether the United States government should not award the grants to "other ambassadors of good will whose wives don't refuse to answer questions as to whether they belong to the Communist Party or...