Word: vermonter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long arm of a Congressional investigating committee reached up to Vermont last year, involving a large proportion of the citizens of the Green Mountain state in a prolonged controversy over the conduct of a member of the faculty of the state university at Burlingon...
...first, Novikoff appeared to be ready to adopt a course of general cooperation with the committee, which claimed to have evidence of his participation in Communist activities while a member of the faculty of Brooklyn College, prior to coming to Vermont...
While warning that no known Communist would be permitted on the Vermont faculty, the new trustee policy also stated clearly that a faculty member who invokes the Fifth Amendment would not be immediately dismissed from the University for that reason alone; rather he would be relieved of his teaching duties, although remaining at full pay, until a special faculty-trustee committee could investigate the circumstances of the case and recommend appropriate action to the full board of trustees...
...another exchange, chairman Jenner snapped: "We do not want a dissertation this morning on how great a man you are," when Novikoff told of his cancer research at the Vermont medical school...
...strongest excoriation ever directed at Senator McCarthy by one of his Republican Senate colleagues, Vermont's Ralph Edward Flanders last week accused him of 1) paralleling Adolf Hitler's brand of antiCommunism, 2) "setting church against church," 3) resuming "his ax-happy efforts to split" the Republican Party. 4) spreading "division and confusion wherever he goes," and 5) helping the Communists...