II. Subject Files,, 1947-1958

Summary: Documentation consists of correspondence and printed materials including communications both pro and anti dismissal from private citizens, Rutgers alumni, past and present students of the professors, New Jersey Governor Alfred E. Driscoll, and Rutgers professors; correspondence of and regarding Heimlich and Finley, including correspondence of President Jones and then Provost Mason W. Gross regarding locating a position for Finley at another university; photostatic materials of Heimlich and Finley, including documentation of their professional histories at Rutgers and transcripts of testimony before the Senate Subcommittee, and in the case in Finley, confidential documents to University Dean Woodward which refute accusations before Congress by former Communists William Martin Canning and Karl August Wittfogel; documentation on the dismissal of alleged Communist Myron L. Hoch, part-time professor of economics at Rutgers; the letter to the Harvard Crimson by Sutherland and Chaffee; newspaper clippings of the cases, consisting largely of editorials condemning the professors. Included with the clippings is a release by the University Office of Public Relations entitled "An Analysis of Newspaper Editorial Comment on the Heimlich-Finley Cases subsequent to the Board Meeting of January 23-24 and Dr. Jones' Statement of January 24.