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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lilienthal was trying to explain to the Joint Atomic Energy Committee why AEC had granted a $1,600 fellowship to Hans Freistadt, a University of North Carolina student and an avowed Communist (TIME, May 23). He had an uneasy time of it. And when the Joint Committee was through with him, a Senate subcommittee considering the AEC appropriation seized hapless Chairman Lilienthal and put him on a grill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Change of Front | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

...Homer Ferguson demanded to be told how many Communists there were among them. "Perhaps as many as three," Lilienthal admitted. One of these, explained Dr. Shields Warren, AEC's director of biology and medicine, was "an outstanding student" named Isador Edelman. Edelman, 29, had applied for a fellowship at the University of California's Berkeley laboratory (where he would have been close to secret work), had been turned down because an FBI check disclosed "derogatory information." But because he "showed extraordinary promise," AEC granted him a $3,750 fellowship at the Harvard Medical School, where he would have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Change of Front | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

...weeks ago, Hans Freistadt was just another one of hundreds of graduate students doing research in nuclear physics. Upon the recommendation of the National Research Council, he had received a $1.600 government fellowship...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communist Grad Student Freistadt Fired from UNC Teaching Position | 5/27/1949 | See Source »

Then on May 12, Congressman W. Sterling Cole of New York charged that Freistadt was a Communist. Called before a congressional committee, Freistadt admitted the charge. The Atomic Energy Commission explained that there was no "loyalty check" of fellowship applicants unless restricted data were involved...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communist Grad Student Freistadt Fired from UNC Teaching Position | 5/27/1949 | See Source »

Edelman had been suspected of Red sympathies while working at the Medical School under an Atomic Energy Commission fellowship. His work was non-secret, and concerned the balance of body fluids in certain surgical diseases...

Author: By John J. Sack, | Title: Edelman Gains Senate's OK, Attacks Local Press | 5/26/1949 | See Source »

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