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Five State bills which would compel private colleges to dismiss Communists from their teaching staffs may be referred to the Commission on Communism and never reach a floor vote, according to Sen. George J. Evans (R) of New Bedford, chairman of the Joint Committee on Education...
...bills would not only compel colleges to expel Communists and Communist sympathizers from their teaching staffs, but would also amend the State's Teacher Loyalty Oath. The amended Oath would force all teachers to swear they are not, nor ever have been, members of the Communist Party...
Hearings will start today at 2:15 in the State Capitol on five bills which would compel private colleges to expel Communists and Communist sympathizers from their teaching staffs. The Committee on Education will conduct the hearings to decide whether it should support the bills and pass them on to the Legislature for action...
Furiously maneuvering, the Premier forced a midnight session, and presented a hurriedly revised budget, in order to compel a new test of strength. He still could not find the votes. It began to look as if Mendès would be overthrown before he could get a vote on the Paris accords. Suddenly, out of the blue, two Deputies of Bidault's M.R.P. announced that they would switch their votes. At 4:30 a.m., Mendès' revised Indo-China budget was accepted by just two votes, 295 to 293. The Mendès government was saved...
Judge Matthew Hill demurred. "What the residents of Chehalis would not be compelled to do one by one," he said in a dissenting opinion, "it is now sought to compel them to do en masse . . . This smacks more of the police state than of the police power...