Word: shapleys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harlow Shapley, director of the College Observatory, was named as pro-Communist by Senator Joseph R. McCarthy (R-Wis) yesterday at a Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee investigating Communist influence in the State Department. McCarthy said Shapley has been connected with at least 36 Communist-front organizations...
...Shapley last night called McCarthy's charges "grossly untrue" and said he was "frankly bored" with such "non-sense...
McCarthy noted that the professor once represented Secretary of State Dean Acheson on the United Nations Economic and Social Council. Shapley on February 12 declared that he had, "never held a State Department position...
...sixth and last story in Griffins current crusade appeared in the Tribune Saturday. It concerned the refusal of Franklin B. Ober, a 1913 graduate of the Law School, to contribute last Spring to a fund for Law School buildings because "Harvard teachers, particularly Harlow Shapley and John Ciardi, were giving 'aid and Comfort' to Communism...
Acheson said there was no truth in any of the charges about Communist influence in the State Department leveled in McCarthy's Rene, Nevada, speech. McCarthy had mentioned Shapley as a "person with Communist connections," and Shapley that same day called McCarthy's statement a "slanderous...