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...Massachusetts Legislature killed the latest attempt to force college presidents to expel Communists from state schools, it was learned yesterday. Approving the recommendation of the Committee on Education, the lawmakers referred the bill to the "next annual session...
...bill states that "the president or trustees of the several colleges and several Schools of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts are hereby ordered to expel Communists or any professor or teacher who supports or advocates the objectives, policies, teachings, principles or practices of Communism as expounded by Marx, Lenin, and Stalin from their teaching staffs after a hearing as guaranteed by the fourteenth amendment...
...traditional is this custom that the anti-subversive measures currently up for consideration are almost word-for-word copies of last year's red bills. Keenan has taken over sponsorship of the McCarthy-Dorgan bill instructing college presidents and trustees to expel professors, teachers and others who "support or advocate" communism. The Committee on Education has yet to schedule a hearing on this...
...impowered the Attorney General to investigate any group suspected of being subversive, and if he should gain any proof, to bring it before the courts. "Subversive" was defined as anyone who aids or teaches violent overthrow of the government. The other bill instructed college presidents and school principals to expel all communists or communist sympathizers from their teaching staffs on pain of losing their charters. McCarthy and Tom Dorgan were too late; they had to file their bills anew at the next session...
Plunkett deleted the phrase: "College and university presidents are instructed to expel . . ." Instead. it requires the expulsion by "law enforcement agencies." The word "Communist" was dropped out, and in its place "those advocating the overthrow of the government by force or violence...