Word: un
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only word . . ." wrote the Times-Star's Louis John Johnen. "Way above what we have come to consider par," mildly agreed the Enquirer's John P. Rhodes. Soprano Stella Roman and Tenor Kurt Baum won cheers all round for their singing (he especially for the aria, Come un bel dl di Maggio)*and Stella got a few extra cheers for her natural, convincing stage manner...
Meanwhile, U.S. colleges turned a cold, unfriendly eye on the plan of the House Committee on Un-American Activities to investigate college textbooks. Princeton and Cornell said that they saw no reason to send lists of books to the committee. If Congressmen wanted to know what Cornell was teaching, said Cornell's Chancellor Edmund Ezra Day, "they had better take courses there and find...
...fitting blue suit, and thick-lensed glasses. An excited whispering broke out in the courtroom as he took the stand. He was Henry Julian Wadleigh, whom Chambers had identified as a onetime member of the Communist apparatus in Washington. Though he had refused to answer questions by the House Un-American Activities Committee on the ground that he might incriminate himself, he had obviously come to court in a mood to tell...
...solve the nation's hottest educational problem-whether Communists and their sympathizers should be barred from U.S. campuses, and if so, by what means. The University of Nebraska had not only barred teachers, but also any textbooks that the Regents might consider subversive. The House Committee on Un-American Activities had called on 107 colleges to send in full lists of their textbooks for investigation. "I suppose this must include the Bible," cracked Wellesley's retiring President Mildred McAfee Horton...
...university's northern section (composed of 700 professors and instructors) refused to accept the Regents' new loyalty oath unless the senate's own representatives were allowed to help revise it. Meanwhile, the University of Connecticut flatly refused to send in any book lists to the Un-American Activities Committee. Heads of other colleges protested. Said President Francis P. Gaines of Washington and Lee University, "Can you imagine a group of erudite Congressmen telling us what books our professors may use [in] literature and social anthropology...