Word: shapleys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Charges against Harlow Shapley, Director of the College Observatory, moved from a national to a local level yesterday when a state representative and the clerk of the Suffolk superior civil court challenged Shapley's right to teach at Harvard because of his alleged Communist associations...
State Representative Paul A. McCarthy (D-Somerville) and clerk Thomas Dorgan expanded the attack that has been made against Shapley in the past week by United States Senator Joseph R. McCarthy in Washington...
...started Monday at the State House by saying that Shapley should not be allowed to teach in Massachusetts. Then last night Dorgan said he and Representative McCarthy want to debate Shapley in public and "let the people judge the facts...
Representative McCarthy is sponsor of a bill to require college presidents to remove Communists and Communist sympathizers from their staffs, or lose the state charters of their institutions. He reiterated to the legislature's committee on education the charges that Senator McCarthy (no relation) had made in Washington against Shapley...
McCarthy made similar accusations about Shapley's "Communist connections" on February 11. Shapley declared at that time that McCarthy's charges were "a complete absurdity and a slanderous lie. It is irresponsible slander of a type that brings disgrace to the Senate of which he is a member...