Word: deverism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...secret more Saturday night, Governor Dever signed the anti-subversive bill without any announcement, the CRIMSON learned last night...
About 880 students yesterday signed a petition sponsored by the Liberal Union requesting that Governor Paul A. Dever veto any anti-subversive bills that the legislature may pass...
Students opposed to the State legislature's anti-Red bill will have a chance to sign a Liberal Union petition demanding that Governor Dever veto the measure when it reaches his desk. The petition will be in all University dining halls today at lunch and supper...
...Massachusetts House yesterday adopted a measure which would outlaw the Communist Party and all organizations considered "subversive" by the courts. At the same time, the Harvard Liberal Union announced that the group would circulate a petition in the dining halls requesting that Governor Paul A. Dever veto any anti-Communist bill which passes both House and Senate...
Only Governor Dever stands between Massachusetts and the loosely drawn anti-Communist bill recently passed by the State Senate. This bill defines a subversive organizations as one formed "for the purpose of advocating, advising, counseling, or inciting the overthrow of the government by force or any other unlawful means." Anyone who remains in a subversives, organization, rents an auditorium to subversives, or contributes to a subversive organization is liable for fines up to $1,000 and three years in jail. Any person converted of being a subversive is able to a $10,000 fine and one year in jail...