Word: markhams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year age today, Harvard Corporation issued a statement explaining its decision to retain, in spite of their exercise of the privilege under the Fifth Amendment, Professor Wendell H. Furry, Associate Professor Helen Deane Markham, and Leon J. Kamin (a Teaching Fellow). In their first appearances before Congressional Committees investigating Communist activities these three teachers had refused, on the ground that their answers would tend to incriminate them, to reply to questions regarding membership in the Communist Party...
...subcommittee officially released the name of only one witness, Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology. It is known, however, that Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy, and Mrs. Helen Deane Markham, assistant professor of Anatomy, also testified. Mrs. Markham, whose contract expires in June, has twice invoked the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution when testifying before the Jenner Committee of the United States Senate...
...asked Wysanski, "where is the principle in allowing Professors Furry, Markham Kamin, and Fine to remain on the Harvard faculty?" "Why," he questioned, "are prominent men in political and educational fields silent when it is their duty to talk up as Americans...
...District Attorney's office began an investigation into violations of the teacher's oath in Boston schools and colleges about a week ago. At that time Thompson named Furry, Helen Dean Markham, assistant professor of Anatomy, and Leon J. Kamin, research associate in Social Relations, as the targets of the probe at the University...
...three testified last spring before congressional investigating committees, and were unfriendly witnesses. Markham refused to testify about either past or present membership in the Communist Party, Furry said he had not been a member since 1951, and Kamin would say only that he was not a member at the present time...