Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last elections Canwell and three of the members of his committee were defeated. But on their way out they made several recommendations. They asked that the committee be continued with enlarged powers; that it green the textbooks used in the schools in the State of Washington: and that a person affiliated with three or more "Communist front organizations" be labelled a Communist without recourse to slander or libel action. "Affiliation with recognized Communist front organizations should place the burden of proof as to loyalty on the individual so affiliated," the committee stated...
While the committee was investigating the University, the administration took a friendly attitude toward Canwell's efforts. Professors were requested to cooperate in every way possible with the committee, and the administration went so far as to ask that no faculty member criticize the committee. When Canwell was running for reelection he used testimonials from the president of the Board of Regents and also from President Raymond B. Allen of the University as campaign material. In February of 1949, Allen endorsed the work of the committee and thanked Canwell for his "unfailing courtesy and integrity with all your dealings with...
...first report defined the nature of the Communist Party of the United States. Within this definition it then stated that "it is impossible to conceive how the mere fact of membership in the Communist Party could in any way affect the competency of respondent Butterworth as a teacher of Old English Literature." It might, the report found, be a possible deterrent to the competence of a philosophy professor. However, the testimony of Phillips' colleagues and students all Issued his competence and objectivity...
There is no way of calculating the reluctance of Washington faculty members now to exchange freely ideas with each other or with students. Professor Henry D. Aiken of Harvard, a former University of Washington faculty member, stated, "It is a terrible thing when men on a university campus have been isolated from one another by fear. A great University has been badly mauled...
...seems to remain--a fare increase. Though the EL consistently lost money, it never raised its fare above ten cents. In the 1948 gubernatorial election, Dever accused ex-Governor Bradford of planning to boost the fare; because of the implications that Dever could get around the deficit some other way, the present governor has now a political obligation to keep the ten cent rate...