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Pending reform of the Student Council Constitution was aided in part by the needlings of the Liberal Union. It was also quick to rally the student body to the support of Harlow Shapley, director of the College Observatory, during his stormy October disagreement with Representative John Rankin of the House Committee on Un-American Activities...
Citing Committee Chairman John Rankin's alleged "star chamber" methods in his November examination of Harlow Shapley, director of the College Observatory, Miss Slade urged students to disseminate information about the Committee's activities to friends and parents and to make their own views known to members of Congress...
Subpoenaed by the House Committee on Un-American Activities, Budenz says that he will not name names until he's face to face with John Rankin. The he'll spill the beans on which union leaders, politicians and public figures are directly or indirectly tools of the Kremlin. For the time being he is playing a cautious game: when a reporter from a top Boston paper asked about the degree of Communistic influence on the Harvard Faculty, he replied that he had "nothing at all" to comment...
...plenary session last Friday, Representative John E. Rankin's committee determined to pass over proposed contempt action against Shapley for the time being. The scientist therefore felt justified in leaving the Independent Citizens Committee here, but said that his counsel, Thomas H. Eliot, would be steadily available in Boston during his absence...
...letter to Representative Mundt the scientist pointed out that the undemocratic inquests of Rankin's group imperil "our high esteem for our Congress, and its prestige throughout the family of nations...