Word: professors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Professor Herbert Dieckmann, head of Washington's Romance Languages department, calls it "a clear violation of academic freedom...
Meanwhile, Shortliffe's plans for the coming year have been disrupted. Expecting to cross the border with no difficulty, he said his Kingsten house and now has no place to live. His former position at Queens has been filled by another professor, although it is understood that he can return next year...
Washington University has been able to get another professor at the last minute, but department head Pleckmann says, "The delay put the department into a most difficult situation...
...inability of the university to secure the services of Professor Glen Shortliffe of Queens University is extremely unfortunate. In the judgment of his colleague in the field of Romance languages, Professor Shortliffe is an excellent teacher, a promising scholar and a man of the finest qualifications of citizenship and character...
...case of Professor Glen Shortliffe, a Canadian who has been denied permission to enter this country by immigration officials, should give the U. S. people cause for uneasiness. Shortliffe accepted last April an appointment to the faculty of Washington University in St. Louis. He received his American visa in June--yet only four days later that visa was invalidated by a peremptory exclusion order. The order said Shortliffe was "a person whose entry is deemed to be prejudicial to the public interests of the United States...