Word: indictments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...John S. Service, who was accused of passing out confidential State Department information to the party-line Amerasia magazine in 1945 (a jury refused to indict him), got his seventh loyalty clearance, this time by the State Department's Loyalty Security Board, headed by Republican Conrad E. Snow. On his way to India last spring, Service was summoned home from Japan after Wisconsin's Senator Joseph McCarthy had called him "a bad security risk" whose "Communist affiliations are well-known." The board's findings, said a spokesman, had been held up while it investigated "a rumor from...
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...again witnesses pointed unequivocally at Shephard as the bad-check passer. "I stood there handcuffed while they swore my life away," he said later. The judge gave him 18 months in the penitentiary. When it was over he was arrested a third time, but a grand jury refused to indict for the simple reason that he had been behind bars at the time of the new crime. A banker on the grand jury listened overtime to Shephard's story of innocence and sent him off to tell it to the Burns Detective Agency, which acts as a clearing house...
Just for the record: nowhere in my statement is to be found the suggestion that the student should not be allowed to explore alien philosophies of government or economy; nowhere do I indicate that the faculty should not be at liberty to indict and analyze deficiencies in American life; nowhere do I hint at an orthodoxy that should trammel the thinking of any faculty member who has a basic respect for Christianity and a free economy. If he has notions at complete variance with these latter, which are, to the best of my knowledge, considered by the trustees of Harvard...