Word: shapley
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Workers in the field of ideas have been objects of attack during the past year," Shapley said. He attacked legislation "designed to establish for teachers the un-American principle of guilt for dangerous thoughts or associations...
Professor Harlow Shapley will enter the fight for wider classroom freedom with a new Commission for Academic Freedom which starts work next week in New York. He named recent text-book and magazine bannings and threats against teachers who "exercise political rights" as the main causes for grievance...
Also Kenneth B. Murdock, Benjamin D. Paul, Ralph Barton Porry, Edward M. Purcell, Gaetano Salvemini, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., Harlow Shapley, M. Brewster Smith, Pitirim A. Sorokin, O. H. Taylor, Robert Ulich, Karl Vietor, Andrews Wanning, John D. Wild, and Donald C. Williams
...Harlow Shapley, Director of the College Observatory, last night made an off-the-record attack on the Thomas Un-American Activities Committee in a speech sponsored by the American Association of Scientific Workers and the Association of Cambridge Scientists. After the speech, a petition strongly attaching the Committee's action in the Condon case was circulated...
Scientists are being discouraged from cooperation in government projects, continued Dr. Shapley, in which "they may be subjected to the smears and terrorisms of the Congressional committee...