Word: mcgarvey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hulda McGarvey Flynn, 42, for eight years (1933-41) a teacher of psychology at Mt. Holyoke and Smith, was summoned before the House Un-American Activities Committee after an FBI counterspy testified that she had once taught at the Communist-run Samuel Adams School in Boston. When Mrs. Flynn refused to say whether or not she had ever been a Communist, the committee asked her about her husband, now a psychologist at the Naval Medical Research Institute in Bethesda. Said Mrs. Flynn: "I decline to answer...
...Alex McGarvey, a molder at Canadian General Electric's Davenport works in Toronto, did some union business on company time one day in 1949, over his foreman's objections. When the company suspended him for a week, McGarvey's fellow unionists in the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (Independent) retaliated with a 2½day work stoppage. Last week an arbitration board ruled that the union had violated its contract, and must pay the company $9,208.40 for losses suffered...