Word: communist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Surely, such a miscarriage of justice as occurred in the courtroom at Plymouth could not happen in America. Daily we read of such events in Communist countries where [murderers] go scot free because of their warped legal system...
...Pacific version of the North Atlantic Treaty. But, he reasoned, Southeast Asia is potentially self-sufficient, and still tied flimsily to the West by frayed cords of the past. He thought the West might be able to build that part of the world into a loose, anti-Communist economic federation by friendly assistance and some money...
...Missing from the delegation: Richard Gladstein, who is busy defending two of the 11 Communist leaders on trial in Manhattan...
Then the Illinois State Legislature's Broyles Commission, which had been investigating both the University of Chicago and Roosevelt College, let go with the loudest blast of all. It called for the expulsion of any student who might refuse to state whether or not he was a Communist, any teacher who would not resign from a Communist or Communist-front organization. It also recommended that colleges which tolerate "subversive" groups on campus should lose their tax exemption...
Harvard, it appeared, had laid down a distinction for educators to consider. Only a week before, Harvard President James B. Conant had joined other members of the Educational Policies Commission of the National Education Association (TIME, June 20) in a finding that Communist Party members should not be employed as teachers in U.S. schools...