Word: bill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...methods and the reasoning of the attacks on Communism in this country, and especially on teaching, have been both crude and subtle. The crude approach, as exemplified by such groups as the Barnes Bill partisans, attempts to legislate Communist teachers out of existence. Yet rarely in attempts of this sort have Communists been the real losers; the real injury caused by these shotgun tactics has been to liberals and other non-Communists. The subtle method argues that no man who follows a dictatorial dogma and strict party organization is capable of objective teaching. Yet the difficulties of defining an ideology...
Instead the House initiated a bill, at last report awaiting Senate action, which would require students to sign a pledge that they do not believe in Communism or Fascism...
...Oklahoma, the House recently passed a bill which would require students in state-supported schools to swear that they were "not affiliated directly or indirectly with the Communist party, the third Communist International, or with any foreign political agency, party, organization, or government...
...When the bill reached a sub-committee of the Senate, however, letters and a petition signed by 1200 Oklahoma University students helped to kill the measure. The Senate group shelved it and substituted a milder pledge of loyalty to the United States government
...Amherst ninth, Captain Ivar Rosendale opened with a single and went to second on an infield out. Bill Genovese popped out but John McGrath kept the rally going with a single to center, scoring Rosendale with Amherst's fourth run. Dave Gold got a life on Dunn's second error and at this point Godin was called...