Word: communist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This bill, "H-220," barred from employment in any educational institution in the state any "person who is a member of the Communist Party or who by speech or in writing advocates its doctrines, or who by speech or in writing advocates the overthrow by force" of the government...
Sullivan's bill removed from tax exempt status "any educational organization that knowingly employs on its faculty a member of the Communist Party, or one who teaches its doctrines of atheism...
Fast was not the only speaker banned at C.C.N.Y. On December 9, Theobald said "no" to a speech by Arnold Johnson, legislative representative of the Communist Party, because Johnson's party appeared on Attorney-General Clark's list of subversive organizations. The Student-Faculty Committee on Student Organizations upheld the ban. It said Johnson's speech would be "detrimental to the college," though it stated that Johnson could speak to any one group in a closed meeting...
...Avowed Communist Hans Freistadt won't be teaching at the University of North Carolina after June 1. Chancellor Robert House told the university trustees yesterday that Freistadt had been ordered dismissed as a part-time Physics instructor at the end of this scholastic year. Freistadt's receipt of an atomic energy commission fellowship set off a recent Congressional inquiry...
...Progressive party to mean compliance with the party line. In reply to a letter he has written, "I haven't received many letters like years from Oregon. Yours needs more like some that have come to me from Brooklyn. I think you have been reading too much communist propaganda that has appeared under the guise of the Progressive Party." In another letter Strand put "Communist organization apologists for the Soviet Union, officials of the Progressive Party, and many other fellow travellers" in the same category...