Word: bill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although this bill, presented by Representative Ralph W. Sullivan, at the beginning of the 1949 General Court session, attracted considerably less attention from the University than the Barnes Bill had, it also got considerably further along the path to enactment before it was scotched...
Sullivan's bill removed from tax exempt status "any educational organization that knowingly employs on its faculty a member of the Communist Party, or one who teaches its doctrines of atheism...
...first Sullivan remarked that he had no hope of getting his proposal passed, but by the date of the bill's hearing, March 28, he had become more optimistic. He announced that he would press hard for the passage of H-442, and substituted for "atheistic communism" advocacy of "the overthrow of the government of the United States by force or violence...
This re-worked version passed the House on May 4 without a single dissent, but was defeated in the Senate 5 days later. One representative said that most of his colleagues opposed the bill, but that they were "afraid to voice opposition to it because they themselves might be open to accusations of sympathizing with Communism...
...Bill of Health...