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...unless she returned to skirts, she would have to sit in a room by herself. Shirley's parents protested that as a result of an operation four years ago, Shirley's legs needed special protection against the cold. The principal asked to see a doctor's affidavit, but never got one. When the Richardsons' lawyer appealed the case, the school board sided with Principal White. "But it's the parents' right," argued the Richardsons, as Shirley's ostracism continued, "to decide what to wear, not the principal's or the school board...
...five weeks before Christmas vacation, Shirley was forced to sit in a classroom by herself, because Principal Ernest K. White disapproved of her corduroy slacks. When her parents argued that Shirley wore slacks because of a leg operation, White replied that he wanted to see a doctor's affidavit. The school board turned down an appeal from the Richardsons' attorney...
...found a comfortable postwar roost with the International Monetary Fund (as an adviser on Middle Eastern affairs). Upon learning that Witness Bentley had cited him as a member of the Nathan Gregory Silvermaster-Harry Dexter White spy ring in the Treasury Department, Taylor angrily fired off letters and an affidavit denying that he was or ever had been a Communist. Last week, after hearings on Taylor's fitness to continue with the International Monetary Fund, a U.S. Civil Service Commission loyalty review board agreed with Elizabeth Bentley...
...lied when he helped to convict Clinton Jencks, an official of the Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers' Union, which was thrown out of the C.I.O. in 1950 for being Communist-dominated. On the strength of Matusow's recanting, Jencks, who had been convicted of falsifying a non-Communist affidavit, was requesting a new trial. The motion was being heard before Federal District Judge Robert Thomason, a onetime Democratic Congressman with a reputation as a liberal and a first-class lawyer. Judge Thomason changed the situation for Matusow...
...persons have been indicted for making false statements under the Communist affidavit clause of the Taft-Hartley Act. Of these, one conviction has been...