Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week Commentator Carter had his first serious editorial kickback when Governor Hoffman filed in New Jersey Supreme Court a $100,000 libel suit against Carter, Philco Radio & Television Corp.; Philadelphia's Station WCAU, where the Carter broadcasts originate; Philadelphia Storage Battery Co. Inc., Atlantic Broadcasting Corp. and Columbia Broadcasting System...
That man is George Sylvester Counts. Last week the slight, peppery Professor of Education in Columbia University's crack Teachers' College turned up in Palo Alto, at Stanford's expense, to address 1,800 educators assembled for the University's annual Conference on Curriculum & Guidance. Well aware that his reputation as an eminent radical educator had preceded him to Hearstland, he began his address thus: "It's becoming almost respectable to be called a Red. Let anyone step out in defense of popular right, and he will be labeled a Communist...
...oath of allegiance to the Constitution now exacted from teachers in 23 States and the District of Columbia. Since no other U. S. professional class is thus singled out to affirm its patriotism, teachers have keenly resented their oath as a special indignity. Warmly cheered was National Director Thomas Warrington Gosling of the American Junior Red Cross when he cried: "Compulsory oaths of allegiance are flagrant examples of dictatorship...
High point of the Teachers' Oath movement was reached last year when Congress, in the course of 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...
...believe in God? Do you believe in any of the doctrines of Communism? Have you ever been in Russia? Do you approve of the writings of 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...