Word: provost
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This much is known: A man walked into the office of Provost Edgar S. Furniss and volunteered the information that Mr. Cohen was engaged in Communist activities...
...Provost Furniss and Dean of the College William C. DeVane, both members of the Prudential Committee, have at various times described the informant as "trustworthy", "a person who felt it was his duty to Yale", and a "man trusted by Yale in the past...
From remarks on the part of both Dean DeVane and Provost Furniss, however, it is evident that the informant had some connection with the FBI, or at least with a thoroughly systematized investigatory body...
...Provost Furniss, in a personal interview, at first stressed the fact that the informant had been an individual. But later, he made such remarks as: "So we called them back just to check...
...Provost also gave further indications that his informant had some connection with...