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Robert S. Lynd

Robert S. Lynd Part 11

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entitled, "For America&#39;sS&ke: Break With
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ROBERT S. LYND.
 The report of the Special Committee on
Activities, House of Representatives, 78th
Session,.on page 16%8, stated that Professor
a signer of a letter addressed to President~»,~s @;,j,_ V ,-
Attorney JACKSON which protested the attack upo n
condemned the war hysteria being worked up by the
administration. "Daily Worker", February 21, l9hO
" LMISCELLANEOUS ACTIVlTIE5 &#39;_
 .The "Daily Worker" deted Notember 12,
column H, section 2, listed Protessor RDBERT S
the&#39;%ponsors&#39;of the U;S.-Soviet&#39;¥riendship
marked the anniversary on,
diplomatic relations between
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establish international unity"; $ccording be
Professor EOBEET S. LERD of Columbia University,
Ynrk, was ona.of the signers cf the §%atementQ
According ta the Baily Horker*dated
page 2, column 5, Frofessar ROBERT S. Lig
was a signer uf a letter to_President Ta
instru¢t the United States delegation tn the
aept a crthright anti~FR4§¬Q position an the
The "Daily worker" éated June 1, 19kg, page 6,
5 stated that YQBERT $. LYNB was a snansor of a cenferenneh§ld.§u§e i6, 1§@9, at the H¢t@1 Br§w@%r§§7§ew~Yark sity, t¢_
discuss means of defeating the Mundtan§ Fergus¢g,Bil1s.
3 Rewards sf the Beard of Elee£imns,_M&nhattan,
A registere far the American Labor Party in 19un, 19ue, m9%?,
and l9%8. . 
The ALP was cited as a Communist front by th
Committee an Sn-American £ctivities, report, Earch729,;l
pages %?, ?7F, 153 and 189.
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registered for nae of the majmr pulitical parties
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30931, issued June 28, 19%} at Washington, D C ,
that ne was born September 26, 1892, at New Albany,
He dv d th t h It for the Office
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his appointment which was signed b
9 Personnel Office of OWI He advise
Central Park west, and that he_had formerly
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Publishers Weekly, 191%-18, mgr. advertising and
book dept Charles Scr1bner&#39;s Sons, 1919, asst
H*ebsch, Inc., and The Freeman  mag.!, 1920, dir Sma
sway, Inst Social and RellglO;lS Research 1.923-26,div ednl research Commonwealth Fund, 192%-27, asst t
later yermanent sec Social Science Research Council l
prof sociology, Columbia, since 1931 Trustee of
Century Fund since 1938 Served with F.A , U S Arm
Fellow A A A 8., mem Am SOCl0l Soc., Am Statis. *u
r-." 4.. ,_.Am Anthrop. assn., Am Econ. Assn Co-Author  with
Middletown £*Study in Contemporary American Culture
Middletown in Transition, 1937 Author Knowledge
1939 Contbr. articles to sociological and pther
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November.3, 19%7, at New Lecture
which Professor ROBERT 3. LIED,
Qolumbia Univegsity, was guest
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In an article in the Daily-worker, an East -Gaaat G0mmunist~newspaper, for March h,~l938, entitleLeading Libarala ail Zsaacs Stand on Garson Uhoiqe,it was statad that 15-nutstanding New York L;bsrals~ ~~adéed their support on the preceding day to Burough 7-IfFresidant STANLEY mT92;5AACS fer his courageous aeticnFin standing by his appointment of s.w. GERSGN, formerDaily worker reparter ta a post on his staff. Theletter ta r. ISAAS5 releasad thrcugh the american GivilMibertias Union commended his stané in refusing todismiss G£RSuh as an example sf juatified resistanceto a wholly unjustifiau prejudics against a compstentman because cf his pclitical beliefs. am g thesigne@s of the letter was Brofessor ROBERT YEE of
Golumhia Univrsity. .
The ew York.Herald Tribune", June £1, 1951,in referring to Slmm w. GmH$R, stated hairmmn cf thaLegislative ureau of the Gammunist ?arty in.he Statsand farmer City mitqr Qf the Daily w0rker.....@ala0a member of the Partys otate G0mmittaa...... »
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The "Daily worker" dated April 29, l9hl} contained
an article entitled 77h Educators Urge City Halt School i
Attacks". According to this article; 774 staff members
of more than 60 American collegesiand Universities e
petitioned the Board of Higher Education of New York -
City, stating that "punitive action against teachers
because of personal beliefs or legal political activity
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The petition which was prepared and~ciroulated among
the college faculties by the American Committee for I
Democracy and Intellectual Freedom protested action
taken by the Board followin investi ations b the 8 8 t Yo r k &#39;
Rapp-Coudert Committee. This petition was signed byi I I
Professor ROBERT S. LYND_at_Celu§hiaVUniversity.
advised that on December l9,,l9 5 the Ameri
for Democracy and Intellectual Freedom; S19
Street, New York City, directed a letter to
LEON C. PHILLIPS, Oklahoma City, Okl
and condemning the 0klahomaGriminal
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an appeal to the damucratic cauntries sf the worlé an
ta the Prasiden of the United States to and the arms
amhargo against Epain and give the Spanish peapls a 
fighting chance" was made publin by tbs American Friends
of $paniah Damocracy. The signers of the petition, 93 ,
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public drawn from many fields of activity and business,
arts, religicn, labor, law and eduaation. Pr0feasorM_
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Accarding to this article, the newly eleeted>;
State Vice Chairmen sf the Americ§n.Labor Party includedBGBERT BEND, Columbia Soaialegg Frefessnr. 7 " V
The Guide tn Subversive Organizations an -
Publications and Appendix published an March 3, l§5l
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1. For years the.emmnniats have put £orth thegreatest efforts ta capturs the entire Amariaan Labor
Farty throughaut New Yurk State. They succaaadlincapturing the Manhattan an Broek1yn.Sect1Qns of the _American Labs? Party, but nutsiéa of New York Gity thhy
have been unahla ta win control. {Specisl_Gummittee:
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