Word: blantons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Blanton's Marks Sirs...
...been rumored that Red-baiting Congressman Tom Blanton of Texas has a secretary whose name is Marx. Could this rumor be verified...
...appropriating funds for District of Columbia schools, ordered all Washington school employes, including janitors, to swear before receiving each month's pay that they had not "taught or advocated Communism" during the month past. Author of this legislative rider was Texas' blatant Red-hating Representative Tom Blanton, from whom District of Columbia teachers meanwhile received a questionnaire with a franked reply envelope...
...Charles A. Beard?" Stormed wiry, liberal U. S. Commissioner of Education John Ward Studebaker: "The implications of the situation in the District of Columbia are of great significance. . . . We can tolerate no dictatorial censorship of thinking and learning." Promptly the convention thundered through a resolution condemning loyalty oaths, the Blanton Rider, "curbs on freedom of teaching...
Profoundly grieved, Governor Blanton Winship of Puerto Rico journeyed from San Juan to the summer palace at Jajome Alto to bury his favorite Labrador, Black Jack...