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...elderly gentlemen refuted him by remarking. "After all, Delaware was the last state in the union to abolish the whipping post...
While Soviet authorities maintain that crime is a bourgeois phenomenon that will wither away under Communism, they have found capital punishment no easier to abolish than the illicit pursuit of capital. The death penalty was dropped in 1947 (not counting secret executions in the cellar of Lubianka Prison, of course), but during the '50s. capital punishment was gradually restored-for murder, treason, espionage and sabotage. Last year, to cope with a rash of get-rich-quick racketeering, the courts were permitted to decree death for counterfeiters, big-time embezzlers of public property and currency speculators. Fortnight ago, Moscow broadened...
Yesterday's Pennsylvanian contained expressing appreciation to college newspapers for, their suggesting that the university have acted differently. In addition, titled "Abolish Student Government--II" continued the paper's the student governing body...
Listed as sponsors of a full-page advertisement asking the House to abolish HUAC were Rupert Emerson, professor of Government; Reinhold Niebuhr, visiting professor of Theology; Perry G. E. Miller, Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature; and Kenneth S. Lynn, associate professor of English...
Finally, the signers called upon the House of Representatives to abolish the HUAC "because no one else will." It noted that privately many Congressmen have said HUAC is "unnecessary, harmful, and, at times, downright silly" but that "publicly, only a handful have opposed the Committee...