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Smith was the second major figure of the NLRB's powerful years to refuse an answer to the Communist question. In both 1948 and 1950, Nathan Witt, who was the NLRB's assistant general counsel from 1935-37 and then its secretary until 1940, ducked behind the Fifth Amendment. Ex-Communist Louis Budenz testified that Smith and Witt were "under Communist discipline" while on the NLRB. Later, ex-Communists Whittaker Chambers and Lee Pressman swore that they had known Witt as a Communist...
...Nathan M. Pusey '28 steps into a hot seat as well as the foremost position in American education as he assumes the Presidency of the University...
...Nathan M. Pusey, '28, president of Lawrence College, Appleton, Wisc., was yesterday elected the twenty-fourth president of Harvard University. Pusey graduated from the College magna cum laude in 1928, received his A.M. here in 1932, and his Ph.D., also from Harvard...
...Corporation and Overseers today duly named Nathan Marsh Pusey '28 to succeed James Bryant Conant as the 24th President of Harvard University. Yet Pusey will not officially occupy the famous "President's Chair" until his formal inauguration...
Thrill-Killer Nathan Leopold, 48, serving a life term in Joliet, Ill. prison for teaming with Richard Loeb (knifed to death by a fellow inmate in 1936) in the 1924 Chicago murder of 14-year-old Bobby Franks, learned that the parole board had turned down his bid for freedom after 28 years in stir because he "is not the right type of man to go back to society." Told not to apply for parole again until 1965, Leopold, a Phi Beta Kappa who has studied 26 languages in prison, said he was "somewhat disappointed," but could "only accept...