Word: polanyi
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Dates: during 1952-1952
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...teaching fellow in government and her husband, a former teaching fellow in economics, think Polanyi has been railroaded. For the last six months Warren and Virginia McClam have been writing to the State Department, Senator-elect Kennedy, Senator Lodge, and the American Civil Liberties Union in the hope that someone will get the decision revoked...
Despite the fact that Senators Fulbright, Benton, and Douglas petitioned for a reconsideration, Polanyi's case has not been reviewed...
...Polanyi recently published a collection of essays. "The Logic of Liberty," in which he sharply criticizes subordinating science to Marxism. He was one of the founders of the Society for Freedom in Science which flourished in England during the '30's and early '40's. In 1949 Princeton awarded him an honorary Doctor of Science Degree. The citation called him "a veteran campaigner against those who would take from science the freedom she requires for the pursuit of truth...
...McClam studied under Polanyi at the University of Manchester. "There was no occasion during that time," she said, "and I came to know Professor and Mrs. Polanyi rather well--when I had reason to believe that he had any sympathy whatsoever for Communism or the Soviet government, and furthermore his writings attest to this fact...
...country several times and once taught for six months at the University of Chicago. His permanent appointment began on October 1, 1951, and though he had sent in his visa application some eight months before, the State Department could not locate the papers until September 30. The delay cost Polanyi his post, but luckily the University of Manchester renewed his professorship. The University of Chicago immediately offered him a visiting professorship for the following year and set a squad of lawyers on the case. The Rockefeller Foundation then backed up Polanyi with a $12,000 study and travel grant...