Word: affidavits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Convinced by uncontested evidence of his Communist Party membership, a Denver jury two months ago decided that Maurice E. Travis, ex-secretary-treasurer of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, had perjured himself by filing the non-Communist affidavits required of union leaders by the Taft-Hartley Act. Last week, up for sentencing before U.S. District Judge Jean S. Breitenstein, Travis, 45, drew eight years in prison and an $8,000 fine-the heaviest punishment yet inflicted for perjury on a Taft-Hartley affidavit. Said Communist Travis: "I have been a radical, a nonconformist all my adultlife...
...Senator Leverett Saltonstall '14 and the Boston Herald yesterday united in defense of Federal District Judge Bailey Aldrich '28, who was attacked Thursday by Senator Joseph R. McCarthy for being reluctant to sign a Massachusetts non-Communist affidavit last summer...
Their action followed a special news conference Thursday night in which Massachusetts Governor Christian A. Herter '15 said Judge Aldrich had signed the affidavit willingly after being told it was a routine requirement...
...appeared yesterday, however, that Aldrich refused to sign the affidavit because he felt the request a reflection on the Federal Judiciary. Well-informed sources said he had also noted that he had been appointed by the President, investigated by the FBI and cleared, and confirmed by the Senate...
...Wisconsin senator said Judge Aldrich had at first refused "on principle" to sign the required affidavit after Governor Christian A. Herter '15 had reappointed him a Massachusetts Memorial Hospitals trustee last August...