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Philosophy Instructor Frederick Woltman was kicked off the University of Pittsburgh faculty in 1929, accused of being a "Red." He wasn't; he had written an article in the American Mercury attacking police brutality in a coal strike, and the Governor did not like it. Roy Howard did. He hired Woltman to do his crusading as a reporter on the New York World-Telegram...
...best biography, decided the judges, was The Autobiography of William Allen White (TIME, March 18, 1946), whose author died in 1944, at 75. One significant sign of the times: the prize for distinguished work as a reporter went to the New York World-Telegram's single-minded Frederick Woltman, who keeps a close and watchful eye on left-wing activities; he won the citation for his periodic pieces on "the infiltration of Communism in the United States...
Cornell University's face was red last week with Communist trouble. Recently Cornell dropped Vladimir D. Kazakevich, longtime Communist and editor of the high-brow Marxist quarterly Science and Society. Kazakevich had been at tacked by the New York World-Telegram's Fred Woltman for hewing to the Communist line in a geography course for Army Specialized Training students. Last week it was noted in the press that Kazakevich's successor, Dr. Joshua Kunitz, was also well known in Communist circles. But Dr. Kunitz was only the latest of many Communist sympathizers who have recently found...
...costing $500) was won not by a single exploit but by a medley of campaigns pushed by the World-Telegram last year: an exposé of discreditable phases of veterans' relief by Reporter Talcott Powell; a series on the real estate bond racket by Reporters Joseph Lilly & Fred Woltman; an expose of the lottery schemes of the Eagles and Moose lodges which led to Federal prosecution (TIME. Aug. 29 et seq.) by Reporter Winston Murrill; urging New York City voters to write-in the name of upstanding Joseph V. McKee for Mayor, after Tammany had rejected his candidacy...
...University of Pittsburgh no longer has a Liberal Club. Two of its student leaders have been expelled. Pittsburgh's Professor of Philosophy Frederick E. Woltman has also been expelled. A visiting celebrity lectured, not in Pittsburgh's Alumni Hall, as he had been invited to do, but in a vacant lot. Thus stood matters last week at the University of Pittsburgh and thus they seemed likely to stand...