Word: sweezey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many men, though not as far left as Davis and socialist Allen Sweezey, were profoundly influenced by the depression, agreeing with lawer George Freudenthal that "the painfully vivid impressions which I received during this period of distress long continued to color my thinking...
...University--and Conant in particular--suffered an embarrassing time in the press, mach of which was deserved or inevitable. The University had not made its principles clear, and it had ignored the wishes of undergraduates in making its decisions. But today Conant can look back at the Walsh-Sweezey incident and reflect "that in the end its effect was a healthful one for out present tenure system works very smoothly...
Thus in the spring of '37 Conant notified the Economics Department that only one of the three men up for promotion could get permanent positions. As fate had it, the two men given notice. Alan Sweezey and J. Raymond Walsh, were the two outspoken liberals in the department. All the anti-Conant sentiment of the time was unleashed, with the extreme left leading the pack with shouts of "academic freedom." Denounced on this ground. Conant only dug himself in deeper when he stated that the decision was reached solely "on the basis of teaching capacity and scholarly ability." Since both...
...frightened faculty set up a committee which first recommended that Walsh and Sweezey be kept on. Conant replied that this was impossible. The committee then returned with a report which established the basis of the University's present tenure system...
...signed articles The Freeman repeats familiar right-wing opinions "Our Leftist Economic Teaching" by Ludwig Von Mises berates ex-Harvard economist Dr. Paul Sweezey for being too naive a socialist, then criticizes a critic of Sweezey's for being too unmilitant an enemy of socialism. Then Von Mises discusses a sinister, but unnamed, group of people called "progressive intellectuals" (who are also by definition Marxists, Veblenians, and Central Planners). Apparently these people held short-term jobs in Washington and came back to their universities with the "mentality of authoritarianism" and a view of the state as "God-sent guardian...