Word: mathers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dorgan opened with the assertion, "If the intellectuals were more loyally alert, and weren't so concerned about academic freedom, there would be no need for investigations." He also characterized Harvard professors Shapley and Mather as "blind...
...speech was largely devoted to criticising the McCarran-Walter Internal Security and Immigration Act. Mather called McCarran's remarks "quite typical of a man who has the attributes of a demagogic politician" and said that he believed the so-called "catch phrases" were not only original but had been used by him "at least a year...
Speaking before the American Association for the Advancement of Science on December 28, Mather clatured that the two McCarran-sponsored laws had dropped "a red tape curtain" around the United States. This was an obvious stab at McCarran's controversial immigration act which compels everyone entering or leaving the United States to swear that he is not a communist, anarchist, fascist, criminal, prostitute...
...same meeting, Dr. Edward U. Condon, director of research for the Corning Glass Works and one of America's outstanding physicists, was installed as President of the Association for 1953. Thereupon the entire audience of scientists erupted into applance. Mather suggested that the ovation presumably stemmed from "the reaction of the scientists to the attack upon Dr. Condon's loyalty recently made by the House Committee on Un-American Activities, an-attack that was officially ignored by the council of the Association but which must have been in the minds of its members." McCarran is Chairman of the Un-American...
...final blow, Mather reiterated his contention that "Senior McCarran's definition of a communist or communist sympathizer is anyone who disagrees with...