Word: bille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three days after the Mather-Barnes debate, President Conant testified before the House Education Committee, which had been considering the Barnes Bill since February 3. Conant spoke officially for Harvard, and was joined by representatives from Clark, Wellesley, Simmons, Williams, and MIT. They all condemned the bill...
...opposition to H-220 was successful. On March 3, the Barnes Bill--in amended form--was voted down by the House. At the same time, however, the House approved a bill excluding Communists from teaching in any state school or college...
...This bill got through the Senate and was signed by Governor Robert F. Bradford '23 on March 19. It lacked practically all of the controversial features of the Attorney-General's proposal...
...Sullivan Bill...
This spring, roughly a year after the Barnes Bill episode, there appeared another legislative attempt to throttle "subversive teaching" in Massachusetts...