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...Erwin Raisz, one of the nation's foremost cartographers and until Monday Curator of Maps at the Institute of Geographic Exploration, is a remarkably cheerful man for one whose life work has just been voted out from under him by the President and Fellows of Harvard University. He is also a remarkably philosophical man who finds no cause for bitterness in the fact that the cartography division chairman of the American Association of Geographers is very abruptly and very obviously jobless...
Finishing off their work in the building are Erwin Raisz, lecturer on Geographical Exploration and Curator of Maps at the Institute, and Edward S. Wood, Jr., instructor in Aerophotography. Their courses have been discontinued, but they will continue to work on research projects until the University moves them...
...Raisz is shown at his desk, working on a map of Arabia for which he has an Army contract. He estimates the map will not be complete until early next year...
Yesterday employees of the Institute received first word of the change in letters from Dr. Rice, who wrote he was ending his connection with it because of "age and financial resources." Erwin Raisz and Edward S. Wood, instructors in the discontinued courses and full-time employees of the Institute, will be forced to move. Dr. Rice will pay them their full salaries for the coming year
Citing the case of a "high-ranking member of the State Department who did not know where Manchuria was," Raisz' letter claimed that "the Palestine and the Korean problem would never have occured if they had been handled by persons with an adequate knowledge of geography...