Word: dorgan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bill follows a long line of proposals which has attempted to outlaw or restrict Communist activities in this state. Last year, McCarthy and Superior Court Clerk Thomas Dorgan, in supporting their bill requiring college presidents to dismiss Communists from their teaching staffs, accused Harlow Shapley, director of the College Observatory, of being unable to teach because of his alleged Communist associations...
...bill's sponsors, State Representative Paul A. McCarthy (D-Som.) and Thomas Dorgan, Clerk of the Superior Court, stated that communist teachers in universities and colleges are one of the prime targets of the proposed bill...
...Dorgan and McCarthy, however, think that the situation warrants immediate action and filed a new bill. It probably will be discussed in the Committee on Education carly next month, prior to a general vote...
Both McCarthy and Dorgan contend that the bill would not cause "thought control;" rather, they say, it goes back to the Constitution and the General Laws of Massachusetts. The Constitution, they claim, says that patriotism should be taught in schools...
McCarthy and Dorgan both believe that their hill to outlaw the Communist party in Massachusetts is the "most important bill filed this term." It probably also will come to an early hearing at the Committee on Constitutional...