Word: newman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Finally, after the deluge, pro and con, calm and hysterical, had spread all over Newman's office, he found out that Schweitzer had printed his and Newman's statements in a pamphlet and mailed thousands of copies of it all over the nation...
...thoughts that the pamphlet did provoke were often violent and mostly anti-Newman. The Tribune of Tulsa, Okla., took advantage of the occasion to slam Harvard and Professors Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., and Samuel Eliot Morison in an editorial entitled "Harvard's Fuzzy-Minded Teachers...
...member of the Federal Grand Jury which last summer indicated 12 Communist Party leaders on conspiracy charges wrote in to tell Newman he was wrong...
...Newman found praise in his mailbox too. The managing editor of the Bayonne, N. J., Times sent a letter applauding Newman's position. So did a building construction man in Baltimore, Md., a South Orange, N. J., housewife, and a Presbyterian minister from a small town in New York State...
...Newman himself is "surprised and amused" at all the furor, but he says, "I have no desire to change what I said before: that people in academic life have got to stand for freedom of though and freedom of investigation, or whatever we mean by academic institutions will fall to the ground...