Word: wendelle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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It is known, however, that some faculty members were much more pleased with the resolution of the case of Wendell H. Furry, associate professor of Physics, than with the three others-Leon J. Kamin, research assistant in the Laboratory of Social Relations, Helene Deane Markham, assistant professor of Anatomy, and...
Scarcely a month later, Professor Wendell H. Furry was summoned by the McCarthy committee to testify in New York. After the hearings, McCarthy called the University a "smelly mess" and said it was filled with Communists. Citing the fact that McCarthy had not ever named anyone at Harvard who is...
Among professors cited is Marcus Singer, professor of zoology at Cornell University and a former instructor at Harvard. Singer had admitted before the Velde Committee to former membership in a Communist discussion group at Cornell, but refused to name any of his associates on the grounds of "honor and conscience...
A year age today, Harvard Corporation issued a statement explaining its decision to retain, in spite of their exercise of the privilege under the Fifth Amendment, Professor Wendell H. Furry, Associate Professor Helen Deane Markham, and Leon J. Kamin (a Teaching Fellow). In their first appearances before Congressional Committees investigating...
Wendell Furry, Professor of Physics, has used the "grounds of conscience" argument in testimony before the McCarthy Congressional committee. He presumably might be liable to prosecution under the new law if he were to refuse testimony on similar grounds before a State Legislative committee such as the Massachusetts Commission on...