Word: commonwealths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...handed forays into the field of civil liberties that citizens of this Commonwealth have been treated to during the current Big Red Scare, House bill 1943 is probably the worst. This document, sponsored by Representative John J. Toomey of Cambridge, would amend the State Constitution to prohibit "persons promoting, furthering, or participating in any movements which are subversive to our American form of government or advocating theories or doctrines contrary to and inconsistent with the constitution of this commonwealth and of the United States" from voting or holding public office...
Most of the testimony in favor of S 133 was collected by the Massachusetts Committee for Equality in Education, which summoned more than a dozen witnesses who had encountered racial and religious discrimination in their personal dealings with educational organizations in the Commonwealth...
This information was part of the testimony delivered yesterday before the Education Committee of the General Court in behalf of a bill to promote fair educational practices in the Commonwealth...
...office of Director For Fair Educational Practices would be created under the terms of the bill. This director would lead an investigation of any school or college in the Commonwealth suspected of discriminatory admissions procedures...
Karen control of the Irrawaddy had cut off rice shipments from Rangoon.
The bankrupt government hoped anxiously for a ?25 million British loan
($100 million). In London, talk revived that Burma, after 15 months of
chaotic independence, would apply for readmission to the British
Commonwealth. In Rangoon, Premier Thakin Nu had moved into a thatched
hut behind his house, and taken a vow of chastity (he has eight
children). Thakin Nu's friends said that he was devoting himself to
becoming a Buddha 999 worlds from now. Recently, Thakin Nu and
thousands of other residents