Word: berkeleys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...church is eligible for property-tax exemption under California's controversial Levering law unless its board signs a special oath of loyalty to the Government. Last week the First Unitarian Church of Berkeley, Calif. announced that it would pay taxes (more than $2,200 a year) rather than sign and condone what is regarded as a violation of church-state separation...
...trip to this country is the first for the Rector. In addition to New York and Boston, he will visit Berkeley and Stanford in California and also Chicago and Washington...
...Berkeley, Calif...
...account was an article in The Nation of January 30, 1954, entitled "G-Men on the Berkeley Campus." This article reviewed the situation, discounted the protestations from University officials, and concluded that both the legislature and the colleges were trying to appease the McCarthyites...
...situation in California, then, is far from clear-cut. Testimony has been given by the chief counsel of the state Un American Activities Committee that a representative was on the campus full-time to investigate any member of the faculty. The Berkeley administration insists that the average professor, not in classified research, is under no special surveillance. Because Mr. Wadman functions much of the time in secrecy there has been no decisive way for the faculty and students at California to find out all the facts about his job. His presence on the campus is resented in some quarters; there...