Word: wyatt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wyatt demanded the report be released. As a result, the Republican members of the state Board of 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 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 speech caused such a wave of popular resentment that the Senate Republican floor leader felt compelled to circulate a resolution repudiating his charges among his colleagues...
Thornton claimed that, "Wyatt is besmirching the character of outstanding citizens without facts...
...that did not satisfy Wyatt. On March 14, in another libel-proof speech on the state Senate floor, he accused three professors of "Communistic, subversive activity." They were Morris E. Garnsey, an economics professor; John C. Livingston, an economics instructor; and Dr. Harl Douglass, director of the College of Education. Wyatt based his charge against Gurnsey on the fact that a student in Garnsey's class had told him Garnsey had said in private conversation, "we ought to change our form of government and try another." Each of the three denied the charge absolutely...