Word: research
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Clear Provision. By week's end, be-leagured David Lilienthal had a public change of heart. Hereafter, he declared, the AEC would demand an anti-Communist affidavit from all applicants. The private National Research Council (which had been picking the fellows for AEC) agreed to this procedure. Said Lilienthal, completing his change of front: "I have no question at all that we should not provide public funds for anyone who advocates the overthrow of this government by force or violence . . . whether [the work] is secret or non-secret." Just to make doubly sure, O'Mahoney announced he would...
...London, pressed for an explanation about that 1941 luncheon, the Foreign Office declared, with a slight frog in its throat, that its "research had produced no record of any such meeting." Winston
Last winter, it came close. New York City's Board of Higher Education was ready to name Bryn J. Hovde, historian (The Scandinavian Countries), housing expert and head of Manhattan's New School for Social Research, to the $15,000-a-year job. But some Queens residents had a candidate of their own: Acting President Margaret V. Kiely. Others, including Brooklyn's Roman Catholic Tablet, attacked Hovde because he had been critical of the House Un-American Activities Committee, and had attended the Moscow-sponsored World Congress of Intellectuals in Breslau last summer (where...
...principle that a man's political beliefs and affiliations can in themselves serve as a standard to determinte his eligibility for membership in an academic community. For as a result of the attention drawn to the cases of Hans Friestadt and Isador Edelman, AEC fellows selected by the National Research Council, it has been proposed that loyalty tests be administered to determinte the acceptability of candidates for government-financed scholarships...
...statement continued to say that apart from its implications for academic freedom, such a policy might reduce the effectiveness of scientific research, drive away brilliant students, reduce the free flow of ideas, and finally,".... alienate scientists, discouraging them from participation in government-sponsored research, thus retarding the progress of work vital to the national safety and welfare...