Word: glasser
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strictly binaural sounds from the lavishly designed exhibition rooms of this year's New England High Fidelity Music Show. Celebrating its fifth anniversary, the show featured all conceivable kinds of music reproduction equipment, from the standards of Bogen, Scott and Electro-Voice to the Grundig, Grado and Glasser-Steers para-phernalia. Even radio stations such as WXHR maintained promotional booths featuring such novelties as FM car receivers...
...During his employment with the U.S. Treasury Department ... the employee, while under the supervision of [the late] Dr. Harry D. White [TIME, Nov. 23, 1953], rose to a high-level position [assistant director] in the Division of Monetary Research. Among his closest associates were Harold Glasser and Ludwig Ullman,* both of whom, in addition to Dr. White, have been identified as Communists and members of a Soviet espionage group...
...August of 1953, after several months of study, the faculty committee, composed of four of Glasser's colleagues in the Law School, unanimously reported that he had unquestionably violated the fixed policy of the University with respect to use of the Fifth Amendment, and had raised "grave doubts as to his fitness for his position," in the words of the official University statutes...
...committee recognized what it called certain "extraordinary facts" in the case, including "a prior adjudication favorable to Mr. Glasser of the subject matter as to which he invoked the Fifth Amendment, a continuing harassment on the same charges over a 12-year period, . . . Indication of bias and pre-judgment on the part of the House committee." But the group found Glasser "unnecessarily militant," accused him of lack of concern for the University's interest, and called his actions "incompatible with the trustees' policy...
With one member advocating lesser punishment, the committee then recommended that Glasser be allowed to resign without prejudice. The group added that if the refused to do so, no alternative remained but to dismiss him from the University. On Sept. 11, the University accepted Glasser's resignation...