On Sat, 8 Jun 2002 14:08:45 -0700 "michael pugliese"
<debsian at pacbell.net> writes:
>
> Just remebered I forget to mention why I dropped the name of
> Morgan Bank partner, Thomas Lamont, in that last post.
> Think he was the father of Corliss Lamont, who was a major
> moneybags for decades to CPUSA and other Old Left linked
> enterprises.
Thomas Lamont was a partner in J.P. Morgan's bank. He endowed Lamont Library at Harvard. He was active in politics as a liberal Republican, was an advisor to Woodrow Wilson during WW I, and was a leading supporter of the League of Nations.
His son, Corliss Lamont was a philosopher who studied under John Dewey. Originally, he had intended to become a minister but his philosophy training and the influence of fellow graduate students like Sidney Hook, led him to becoming an atheist (as well as a leftist). Lamont was of course independently wealthy, but he pursued a career as a philosophy professor, and taught for many years at Columbia University. Corliss Lamont was a leading supporter of the American Humanist Association, both intellectually as in his *The Philosophy of Humanism*, and of course financially.
He apparently never belonged to the CPUSA but was close to it for many years (apparently the Party thought he would be more useful if he remained outside of it, in the role of an "honest liberal"). Like his father, Corliss Lamont was a generous contributor to both Harvard University and Columbia University. He gave lots of money to a variety of progressive and leftwing groups (he was close to people like Paul Sweezy and Harry Magdoff at Monthly Review, and to the folk at Science & Society),
and as I already mentioned he was for many years the leading financial angel for the American Humanist Association. In the 1950s he battled Joe McCarthy and won an important case before the US Supreme Court over the suspension of his passport by the US government. He also ran for the US Senate on an independent leftist ticket, which was notable because that effort brought together both Socialists and Communists and ex-Communists. In his later years, he tended to give money to Democratic candidates including a certain William Jefferson Clinton in his 1992 campaign. When Lamont died in 1995, the same William Jefferson Clinton issued a tribute to Lamont which praised him for his lifetime of activism.
Jim F.
> Michael Pugliese, http://www.bolshevikbankers.com, now I'll get
> back to, "Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution, " by Anthony
> Sutton. HEH!!!
>
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