Word: secrete
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Closed Shop. In St. Louis, Mr. & Mrs. George H. Pring returned home in time to find a burglar leaving with $530 in cash and jewelry, asked how he got in and received a guarded reply: "That's a professional secret; if I tell you, you'll go out and rob houses...
...Admittedly a university might be faced with a difficult problem if some member of the permanent staff should suddenly announce that he was a fullfledged member of the Communist Party, but no such problem exists here at Harvard; and when it comes to the possible presence of secret members of the Party on the teaching staff of an institution, I can only endorse what has been so well said by Grenville Clark, in his recent letter to Mr. Ober, namely...
...suggestion that we should employ here a procedure comparable to that required by the necessities of secret government work and investigate the loyalty of our staff is utterly repugnant to my concept of a university...
...come. Admittedly a university might be faced with a difficult problem if some member of the permanent staff should suddenly announce that he was a full fledged member of the Communist party, but no such problem exists here at Harvard; and when it comes to the possible presence of secret members of the Party on the teaching staff of an institution. I can only endorse what has been so well said by Grenville Clark in has recent letter to Mr. Ober, namely. "The harm done by the effort to discover even a single clandestine Party member would out weigh...
...University, I can assure you there will be no policy of inquiry into the political views of the members of the staff and no watching over their activities as private citizens. Any suggestion that we should employ here a procedure comparable to that required by the necessities of secret government work and investigate the loyalty of our staff is utterly repugnant to my concept of a university. On this point I am sure you will all agree. You will likewise join with me in condemning "the careless, incorrect and unjust use of such words as 'Red' and 'Communist' to attack...