Word: stand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Loyalty Check. In Newark, Frank Churak explained why he had turned in a false fire alarm: he only wanted to see if his wife would stand by him when police arrived...
Confession. The man who trudged up to Capitol Hill on the following day displayed none of Robert Oppenheimer's crisp confidence. He knew what was coming. A few days before taking the stand, thin, 36-year-old Frank Oppenheimer resigned his post as assistant professor of physics at the University of Minnesota and his resignation had been promptly accepted. He sat uneasily before the House Committee on Un-American Activities and talked about the mistake he and his wife Jacquinette had made twelve years before...
...Repeats Stand...
President Conant first repeated his stand against Communist Party members as teachers, applying it unmistakably to Harvard this time...
...member of the CRIMSON editorial staff during college years, I wish to express hearty approval of your forth right and courageous stand in behalf of academic freedom and Harvard honor, in opposing the "witch-hunting" proposal to exclude from the University's teaching personnel anyone endorsing or supporting the ideals and philosophy of Communism...