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Dunham, who did graduate work here in the early '30's, was called before the House Committee one day after Wendell H. Furry, associate professor of Physics, had testified. The Temple professor was cited for contempt by the Committee after refusing to give anything but his name...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reticent Prof Suspended by Temple Prexy | 3/2/1953 | See Source »

...federal parole board in Washington denied parole requests from Gambler Frank Costello, in prison in Milan, Mich, serving 18 months for contempt of Congress, and Benjamin Davis, one of the eleven top U.S. Communist leaders, serving five years at Terre Haute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 23, 1953 | 2/23/1953 | See Source »

...Kefauver witnesses jailed for contempt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs,INTERNATIONAL & FOREIGN,OBIT: Ring In the New | 2/23/1953 | See Source »

This committee will inform the Corporation of faculty opinion and sentiment throughout the probes, and is expected to have a vital part in deciding Corporation policy if professors refuse to testify and are cited for contempt...

Author: By George S. Abrams, | Title: Six Man Group Will Gather Faculty Opinion on Probes | 2/18/1953 | See Source »

...Committee's loyalty check rapidly turned by innuendo into an attack on the Secretariat itself. When secretary-general Trygve Lie ordered employees to be silent on official U.N. business, O'Connor claimed this obstructed the Committee. He threatened any witness who followed Lie's order with punishment for contempt, and labeled the Secretariat a home of subversive activities in the United States...

Author: By Michael O. Finkelstein, | Title: Plate Glass and Politics | 2/18/1953 | See Source »

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