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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Replied Strauss, who has been in Government service on and off since 1917: The hearing shows "a pattern of persecution through long-drawn-out attempts at defamation of a plain man who has done his best as he sees it for his country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: The Inquisition | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

...build up its case, the committee called in two scientists, still bitter against Strauss for his part in getting the security clearance of Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer lifted in 1954, in a sequel to the fierce battle in which Strauss urged-and Oppenheimer opposed-a program to develop an H-bomb. Argonne National Laboratory Physicist David R. Inglis, newly elected chairman of the politicking Federation of American Scientists, charged that Strauss, out of "personal vindictiveness," had dragged scientific freedom "into the dirt" in the Oppenheimer case. But Inglis threw considerable light on his own judgment when he remarked that Alger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: The Inquisition | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

Impeached as a witness in a different way was Los Alamos Physicist David L. Hill, who accused Strauss of, among other things, distorting truth and usurping authority. Pennsylvania's Republican Senator Hugh Scott remarked that Hill's statement was "extremely well prepared." Did he get any help in preparing it from "anyone connected with the Senate or with any Senate Staff member?" An uneasy silence fell. Then the committee's Special Counsel Kenneth Cox, a Seattle lawyer, spoke up: "The witness discussed several matters with me, Senator Scott...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: The Inquisition | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

More Than All 13. Testifying at Strauss's request, two of the U.S.'s most eminent men of science quietly demolished the charges that Strauss is hostile to science and scientists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: The Inquisition | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

...Strauss's "longstanding, warm and effective support of science," his "great respect for science and friendship for scientists." Physicist Detlev W. Bronk, president of the National Academy of Sciences, said that over the years he had found Strauss "completely cooperative" and "completely honest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: The Inquisition | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

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