Word: americans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...four-man panel split down the middle at Rindge Tech last night--two university professors defending and two prominent local politicians opposing the right of Communists to teach in American schools. The discussion launched the current season of the Law School Forum...
Speaking first, Muchnick asserted that "avowed or proven" members of the Communist Party should be prohibited from teaching in American schools. Drawing an analogy between moral corruption and the beliefs of the Communist Party, Muchnick said it was the duty of American legislators to defend the nation's youth against what he termed the "political immorality" of those who advocate the revolutionary overthrow of the government...
Sullivan cited Oliver Wendell Holmes' dictum that "no man is free to shout 'fire' in a crowded theater" in defense of his thesis that Communist Party tactics are a "present threat" to American freedom and should be opposed by whatever legislation is needed. Emphasizing the implications of the present international situation, he said, "There are only two contestants in the world scene today--the United States and Russia. We have no alternative but to consider Russia as an enemy...
Twelve o'clock: Only one competitor: A. M. Schlesinger Jr. takes on History 169, "American Intellectual History," in Sever 11. Lectures are full of facts and the reading is tops...
...right of Communists to teach in American schools, a subject of violent dispute here last year by students, faculty members, and local legislators, will be assailed and defended anew by a four-man panel tonight at 8:15 p.m. in Rindge Teach Auditorium. The discussion will launch the fourth consecutive season of the Law School Forum...