Word: true
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Well, where did this hysteria come from? It was true that Harry Truman could hardly be blamed for Senator Bourke Hickenlooper's wild journey through the Atomic Energy Commission files with blunderbuss and loaded innuendo. Nor could he be blamed for the House Un-American Activities Committee's crass demand for a list of textbooks from 107 colleges (which Mr. Truman dismissed with an approving reference to a Washington Post cartoon...
...story that Witness Oppenheimer had called a "complete fabrication" when the Washington Times-Herald printed it two years ago. Last week he admitted that it was true: in 1937 Frank and Jacquinette, naively looking for a cure for the world's woes, had joined the Communist Party; they had quit, disillusioned, 3½ years later. During the war he worked on atomic projects in California, at Oak Ridge and at the Los Alamos laboratory run by his brother Robert, and had received a letter of praise from Major General Leslie R. Groves, wartime chief of the atomic-bomb program...
...True, they fixed Big Business with a cold and fishy stare. Some patent lawyers were inclined to believe that a patent-holder's case was as good as lost if it ever reached the Supreme Court. The court cracked down on anything that looked like collusive price-fixing. Tax lawyers were chiefly concerned with keeping their cases out of the highest court's hands...
...Runyon script spiced with Hope's gags plus a racehorse, a moppet, and Lucille Ball--that's "Sorrowful Jones." And it's good, too, because Hope is not just the joke machine of the "Road" pictures, but a completely developed character from one of Runyon's best stories. True, there's plenty of the old Hope slapstick and a dozen of those gun-in-back wisecracks, but there's also a human being, Sorrowful Jones, the bookie, reacting to everything around him. It's good, moreover, because Lucille Ball Jerks tears with her smile of love and because the moppet...
...once that your proposals--apparently to dismiss or censure two professors, and certainly to impose drastic controls on the activities as citizens of all professors--cannot and will not be adopted at Harvard, so long as Harvard remains true to her principles...