Word: wyatt
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Political enemies of Thornton, headed by State Senator Morton G. Wyatt, used information secretly obtained from the report to attack Thornton and his appointee, Colorado University President Robert L. Stearns. After Stearns had declared there were no "subversives" on the University faculty, Wyatt named three on the libel free halls of the State Senate, and demanded they be fired. The speech, branded by the Lieutenant-Governor as "nauseating" led Thornton supporters to rush to the aid of the University, while supporters of civil liberties demanded that the two-year old report, compiled by former FBI agents, be either released...
...Wyatt demanded the report be released. As a result, the Republican members of the state Board of the Regents, at a special meeting with Wyatt, informed him (he said) that eight of these teachers had already left the University, but five or six others were being kept "under the close scrutiny" by the Regents...
...Stung by Wyatt's charge, President Stearns insisted that "every teacher now on the faculty had been cleared completely" of any suspicion of subversive leanings...
...Wyatt's behavior stirred new protests that the secrecy of the report made it possible for all sorts of gossip to be spread. A Colorado faculty committee, including three Deans, urged the Board of Regents to destroy it. The Denver Post recommended five of the copies be burned, and the sixth sent to the FBI for use in its own files "under statuary safeguards against improper...
...Stearns are keeping them locked in the safe. They claim they "must be kept secret for the protection of innocent as well as punishment of those guilty." Yet as long as it is hush-hush, every faculty member of Colorado University is subject to the same treatment Senator Wyatt dished out last March...