Word: jenner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the first visit of Senator Jenner's Internal Security Subcommittee to Boston late in March, some 56 Massachusetts educators issued a statement claiming that congressional investigating committees "are contributing to a subtle breakdown in our democratic processes...
...attack mounted against infringements on academic freedom, the presidents of several colleges and universities took their stands. These educators were no longer faced with the mere possibility of investigations and hearings; men from their faculties were being called before the Jenner or Velde or McCarthy committees; some of them were invoking the Fifth Amendment...
...include the names of at least eleven professors who are past or present members of organizations on the Attorney-General's list of subversive organizations. One of them is reported to be Dr. David Hawkins, visiting Fellow in General Education at Harvard, who last week appeared before the Jenner Internal Security Subcommittee...
Helen Deane Markham, assistant professor of anatomy, who refused to tell the Jenner subcommittee anything at all about her relation to the party. The Corporation's findings: though she once taught a biology course at the Communist-run Samuel Adams School in Boston. Dr. Markham was never actually in the party. "We regret," said Harvard, "that Dr. Markham did not see fit to supplement the official record before the committee to this effect, but we do not regard that as controlling...
Senator William E. Jenner said yesterday that he has sent to University authorities the latest testimony before the Senate Internal Security subcommittee of Mrs. Helen Deane Markham, assistant professor of Anatomy at the Medical School...