Word: membership
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...because he "showed extraordinary promise," AEC granted him a $3,750 fellowship at the Harvard Medical School, where he would have no contact with classified work. (At Harvard, Dr. Edelman declared he was an antiCommunist, but admitted he had been briefly interested and "probably" had applied for Communist Party membership as a student six years ago. He is now engaged, said Edelman, in the study of urine and other body fluids...
Although two-thirds of the teachers belonged to at least one teachers' association, less than 13 percent held membership in any science organization for teachers. One-fourth of them hadn't read some of the most important publications in the field, while only one-sixth regularly read the most popular scientific journals...
...Union's statement follows in part: "A further restriction of academic freedom now appears to be imminent through extension of the principle that a man's political beliefs and affiliations can in themselves serve as a standard to determinte his eligibility for membership in an academic community. For as a result of the attention drawn to the cases of Hans Friestadt and Isador Edelman, AEC fellows selected by the National Research Council, it has been proposed that loyalty tests be administered to determinte the acceptability of candidates for government-financed scholarships...
Edelman admitted that he had attended two Communist meetings in Indianapolis in 1943, and may have applied for membership. However, he said, he did so because of intellectual curiosity and dropped out when he found he disagreed with the Party's principles...
President Strand in many of his public statements since the dismissals has taken membership in the Progressive party to mean compliance with the party line. In reply to a letter he has written, "I haven't received many letters like years from Oregon. Yours needs more like some that have come to me from Brooklyn. I think you have been reading too much communist propaganda that has appeared under the guise of the Progressive Party." In another letter Strand put "Communist organization apologists for the Soviet Union, officials of the Progressive Party, and many other fellow travellers" in the same...