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...anti-Communist bill in the state legislature would compel colleges to automatically suspend any teacher indicted on a charge of subversion. The Legislative Committee on Education proposed the law yesterday...
...artificial rules compel Leverett's outstanding staff to mingle with the students so they often don't. But genial Master Leigh Hoadley is always ready to trade lunch-table views with anyone on a range of subjects extending from fly-leds to the principles of general education...
...Caius answered:] "It is the duty of the government to provide the necessities of life at a price the poor can afford; once you start doing that you have to fix the price of a good many other things as well, and compel people to work at the unpopular trades that lose money...
...objectives of the Velde and Jenner hearings is not to legislate but to root out dissent. The means used are to expose and humiliate nonconformists (a term explicitly including New Dealers), to compel confession, to create informers, to deprive the stiff-necked of their jobs, to terrorize the un subpoenaed members of the educational community, and to use the committee bearings as a sounding beard for the speeches of the Congressmen. These conclusions are supported by the frequent committee assertion that it possesses the information it seeks; by the committee practice of holding first an executive session and then...
...greatest Russian threat is not military might, but that fear of Russia will compel Americans to enforce uniformity and conformity on their fellow Americans," stated Quincy Howe '21, Chicago news commentator and analyst, at last night's Law School Forum...