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...years later a subpoena for his appearance was issued by the Un-American Activities committee and then withdrawn. In 1950 both the New York Daily News and columnist Fulton Lewis published articles repeating the spy charges against Glasser. As the Rutgers faculty committee which later reviewed the case pointed out, this long series of incidents apparently developed a feeling of harassment in Glasser's mind and a sharp antagonism toward investigative groups...
...save the world." From 1947 to 1953 Hinton lived in China, working first with a Protestant mission under UNRRA supervision, later for the Communists as an agricultural adviser. Since then, he has been touring the U.S. as a free-lance lecturer. Last week Hinton got a letter, enclosing a subpoena, from Indiana's Senator William Jenner. It said: Come to Washington and give the U.S. Senate "the benefit of your experience...
...Novikoff case began innocently enough in March, 1954, when he received a subpoena from the Senate Judiciary Committee headed by William Jenner (Rep.-Ind), then engaged in an investigation of subversives in education...
Shortly after receving the subpoena, Novikoff conferred with the president of the University, Carl W. Borgmann, and the University counsel, and a few days later appeared voluntarily at an informal meeting of the committee, attended by Senator Herman Welker (Rep-Udaho) and committee counsel Robert Morris. After the meeting, Novikoff announced his willingness to go to Washington at his own expense and testify at a public hearing...
Griswold also asserted that "no committee or committee chairman has the power to conduct investigations or subpoena witnesses merely because the chairman is a congressman." He added that because the powers exercised by investigating committees is that of the entire legislative body, the responsibility of investigation should rest with the entire body. "The investigating process is necessarily a corporate process," he said...