page_title: Morris U. Cohen
section_title: Resignation
hierarchical_section_title: Morris U. Cohen / Career / Resignation
caption_attribution_description: English: Bain News Service,, publisher. Samuel Neuberger [no date recorded on caption card] 1 negative&#160;: glass&#160;; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. Notes: Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Format: Glass negatives. Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication. Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.13743 Call Number: LC-B2- 2775-4
context_page_description: Morris U. Cohen was an American professor of chemistry, dismissed in 1941 from the City College of New York following investigations by the Rapp-Coudert Committee and alleged of Soviet espionage during 1953 hearings of the U.S. Senate Internal Security Subcommittee.
context_section_description: On September 18, 1941, CCNY student newspaper The Campus followed up with lives of the three teachers on suspension:
  Sidney Eisenberger (Chemistry) could not afford to support his family and consequently was forced to send his wife and four-year-old twins to live with relatives in Ohio...
  Morris U. Cohen (Chemistry), responsible for the recent reduction in chem lab fees and... important x-ray work was another who was obliged to give up his home.  His family, including his five-year-old son, was able to stay together–but only in the home of relatives.
  Morris U. Schappes... not only lost his job, but after admitting former membership in the Communist Party, he was arrested and put in jail.
  On October 6, 1941, Cohen's lawyer, Samuel A. Neuberger, abruptly walked out on his client and left the courtroom when the court would not let him subpoena full records related to Cohen's charges of graft and corruption at CCNY.
  On January 19, 1942, Cohen, Louis Balamuth, and Arnold Shikatoff resigned from their teaching positions at CCNY, while the Board of Higher Education dismissed three clerks: Jesse Mintus, Morris Foner, and Jetta Alpert.
  Cohen worked at the Technical Research Laboratories after CCNY, which had contracts with the US Army.  He was also a stockholder in Balco Corp. with Lewis Balamuth and Joseph Steigman. He also worked for the Gussack Machine Products Company of Long Island City "under contract for Armed Forces."
caption: ILD lawyer Samuel A. Neuberger represented Morris U. Cohen in 1941 and 1953
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