Word: markhams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...room for first-graders, and in spite of the fact that many classes have topped the 40-pupil mark, the school is on double shift. Palatine's pupils have overflowed into St. Paul Evangelical and Reformed Church, those in Park Forest are using private houses, and those in Markham have taken over three half-basements...
Though some relief may come from the legislature next year, this will only begin to solve the problem. Many towns are therefore going after the man who has benefited most from the boom: the builder. Though they are not sure whether it is legal or not, Park Ridge and Markham have both passed ordinances requiring builders to contribute $250 to $300 for every new home (which will, of course, actually be added to the price of the house). In Palatine, one builder has put up a 30-room schoolhouse to take care of the residents of his new development...
...diehards in the Massachusetts House of Representatives had cause for limited optimism. Then, the Massachusetts Commission on Communism, which for a year had been studying subversive activities in the state, published names of 85 alleged past Communists, including Wendell H. Furry, associate professor of Physics; Mrs. Helen Deane Markham, former assistant professor of Anatomy; and Leon J. Kamin, former teaching fellow in Social Relations...
Singer had appeared before the Velde Committee in May of 1953 and then testified freely about his own participation in the group. But he declined to answer questions concerning other alleged members, among them Harvard physics professor Wendell H. Furry and former Harvard Medical School professor Helen Deane Markham. Singer based his refusal both on grounds of conscience and on the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination...
...Markham pleaded the Fifth Amendment, the U.S. Constitution, and the Twelth Article of the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights before the Committee in regard to past or present Party membership; and although Harvard issued a statement in May, 1953, saying that it believed "Dr. Markham is not, and never has been, a member of the Communist Party," the Commission stated in its report that it "has received creditable evidence" that...