Word: membership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before determining disciplinary action, Moskoff attempted to discover not only past membership in subversive organizations but also the extent and duration of such membership and whether the severance was complete, final, and in good faith...
According to Moskoff the major problem of the investigators is the kind of subversive being sought and dismissed; "It is plain that any person who actively supports a totalitarian government or who seeks to impose a totalitarian government on the United States by membership . . . in such organization, is unfit to teach in our schools. It is recognized that in our democracy individual citizens are free to believe as they wish, even in Communism, Fascism, the Ku Klux Klan, or Nazism, but it is not conceded that such right to such belief includes the right to crystallize these beliefs into action...
This was an informal session. At another, on June 22, Rutman said he knew no Jefferson teachers to be present Communists. Then, on August 5, he came before a newly-formed College Loyalty Committee whose membership included Sollis-Cohen, two other trustees, Dean Bennett, and Dr. Abraham Cantarow, chairman of biochemistry...
During the further course of the hearing, Novikoff denied membership in the Communist Party at any time since coming to Vermont in 1948, but invoked the Fifth Amendment in answer to questions concerning membership prior to 1948. He also refused to testify concerning the alleged Communist activities of former associates at Brooklyn College, saying: "I cannot be an informer and this is what I was asked...
Among professors cited is Marcus Singer, professor of zoology at Cornell University and a former instructor at Harvard. Singer had admitted before the Velde Committee to former membership in a Communist discussion group at Cornell, but refused to name any of his associates on the grounds of "honor and conscience," and of the Fifth Amendment. Among the questions which he refused to answer were "Did you know Wendell H. Furry as a member of the Communist Party?" "Did you know Helen Deane Markham to be a member of the Communist Party?" nd "Was Wendell H. Furry engaged in hose Communist...