Word: shapley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...answer to a subpoena to appear before the Wood-Rankin Un-American Activities Committee, Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and director of the University Observatory, replied in a sharp statement yesterday charging the committee with interference in a political campaign and going beyond its jurisdiction...
Professor Shapley, who has been active in the congressional campaign of Martha Sharp against incumbent Joe Martin, received the subpoena yesterday from the Congressional Committee's counsel Ernie Adamson. The order demanded that Shapley deliver all records and files of the several political organizations with which he is affiliated...
...subpoena I received today on the eve of the elections from the Wood-Rankin Committee to Investigate Un-American Activities, is an obvious political maneuver to discredit the activities of all independent voters in this election, particularly in the contest between Martha Sharpe and Joseph Martin," Shapley declared when he had seen the subpoena...
...According to the resolution under which it was created the Wood-Rankin Committee has no authority to investigate the campaign expenditures. I was amazed that any committee of the House of Representatives in this way oversteps its jurisdiction in order to play partisan politics," Professor Shapley con- cluded...
...stratoplane with Shapley into spaces interstellar...