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The Bigelow Appointment

The controversy over the appointment of Mr. John M. Bigelow to the Board of Governors of Rutgers University— cut short when the New Jersey Senate took the matter out of its committee’s hands and confirmed Mr. Bigelow—would seem to illustrate an unfortunate tendency, on the part of those seriously concerned with Communist infiltration, to put an entirely proper position in the wrong terms. I say “would seem” because what actually happened was not clear from the New York papers, particularly what Mr. Bigelow did or said on behalf of the school teacher whose legal counsel he was and who, some time ago, pleaded the Fifth Amendment in an investigation by the Board of Education of the City of Newark.

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The Bigelow Appointment

The controversy over the appointment of Mr. John M. Bigelow to the Board of Governors of Rutgers University— cut short when the New Jersey Senate took the matter out of its committee’s hands and confirmed Mr. Bigelow—would seem to illustrate an unfortunate tendency, on the part of those seriously concerned with Communist infiltration, to put an entirely proper position in the wrong terms. I say “would seem” because what actually happened was not clear from the New York papers, particularly what Mr. Bigelow did or said on behalf of the school teacher whose legal counsel he was and who, some time ago, pleaded the Fifth Amendment in an investigation by the Board of Education of the City of Newark.