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...ROBERTSON Wilmore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 21, 1959 | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

...dressed up in a circle pin, a pearl necklace, an orchid and an ageless smile, Anna Mary Robertson (Grandma) Moses handled a silver knife with the art that comes from practice. She was cutting birthday cake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 21, 1959 | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

This conspiracy, they warn, is a shrewd and insidious campaign that has spun its web deep in American society. Kenneth Robertson is fond of reciting from memory one of 1200 quotations he is trying to get published in book form--this one from Dmitri Manuilski's speech to Moscow's Lenin School of Political Warfare...

Author: By Kenneth Auchincloss and Craig K. Comstock, S | Title: 'Veritas' Hits 'Red Infiltration' at Harvard | 5/22/1959 | See Source »

...order to "cut down on all future infiltration as well as to pin the blame for those subversives who slip by," Robertson proposed a special committee to pass on all Faculty and staff appointments. Presumably, its members would include Veritas sympathizers and others who would "oppose, vigorously, all attempts at Harvard, to shackle, to suppress or to discourage the expression of the Constitutional, conservative, free enterprise point of view...

Author: By Kenneth Auchincloss and Craig K. Comstock, S | Title: 'Veritas' Hits 'Red Infiltration' at Harvard | 5/22/1959 | See Source »

...Veritas Committee had made themselves unpopular in both University and Massachusetts Halls. Though often well documented, their letters assumed a belligerent tone; when their efforts to elicit certain information were frustrated, the Veritas group resorted to polemic. Realizing their position and wanting to continue the fight, Kenneth Robertson and others decided that a completely new organization with fresh personnel might make more progress...

Author: By Kenneth Auchincloss and Craig K. Comstock, S | Title: 'Veritas' Hits 'Red Infiltration' at Harvard | 5/22/1959 | See Source »

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