Word: robey
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...officers (president: Harvard's Professor Kirtley F. Mather) "frankly left-wing." In Manhattan, a committee of eminent educators, headed by Columbia's Professor Wesley C. Mitchell, was formed by the American Committee for Democracy and Intellectual Freedom to examine the text books attacked by Professor Robey. And in Philadelphia at a P. E. A. meeting over which Professor Miller presided, Professor Rugg and his critics unsheathed their swords. Cried Professor Rugg, glaring at the Economic Council's Merwin Hart: "These men are . . . enemies, enemies of our children. Mr. Hart speaks as a representative of business...
This week the N. A. M. disclaimed Dr. Robey's premature pronouncements, said his views were strictly his own. Meanwhile his full report was at the printer's, complete with further quotations, and homebound educators knew they had not heard the last...
...make sure that his study was unbiased, Dr. Robey hired as assistants a liberal, a conservative and a Marxist (Vladimir D. Kazakevich, an editor of the Stalinist quarterly Science and Society). They waded through some 600 social science texts (90% of those used in U. S. high schools), excerpting passages to show the authors' views on 1) the U. S. form of government, 2) free business enterprise...
enterprise before we start to tell them it is all run by a bunch of crooks and is no good." To the delighted reporter, Robey then proceeded to announce his conclusions from his textbook study...
...were downright "communistic." Dr. Robey illustrated his conclusions with quotations...