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Since his dismissal, efforts by the students for Lenz, the Queens Citizen's Committee for Dean Lenz and a committee of representatives from liberal, labor, and educational groups headed by Rep. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. (D, N. Y.) have failed to elicit a hearing from the New York Board of Higher Education...
Leading the investigations were the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, headed until November by Senator Pat McCarran (D-Nev.) and by Sen. William E. Jenner (R-Ind.) afterwards; and the House Un-American Activities Committee, headed by Rep. Harold Velde (R-Ill.). Both group had full subpoena power, both had sent large research staffs in the field for months before they called witnesses. Both confronted witness with large stores of information on Communist and front activity during the last fifteen years. In almost every state in the union, state legislative committees had started or were preparing similar investigations...
...William E. Jenner (R-Ind), and Rep. Harold H. Velde (R-III) both saw fit to comment. There were the usual complement of crank letters too. Many colleges expressed interest. At last report the student newspaper at Bonn University in Germany printed an account...
...bill was drafted by the committee as a replacement for a much stronger measure originally filed by Rep. Paul A. McCarthy (D-Somerville). McCarthy's bill called for the immediate revocation of the charter of any school which refused to expel a Communist from its teaching staff...
...most tense moment in the hour and a half long hearing came when Representative Gordon Scheer (Rep., Ohio) accused the physics professor of coming back to Washington only for the purpose of keeping a bargain with the Corporation...