Word: florida
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Florida, the House Communism Investigating Committee is getting ready to start a study of possible Communist influences at the University of Florida, Florida State University, and Florida A. and M. College. Nobody has been dismissed as yet, but the legislature plans to ask instructors for a loyalty oath and intends to question them on their political party affiliations, on their possible past connections with the Communist party, and on their views about racial segregation...
...observer in Florida told the CRIMSON, "My belief is that legislators were forced into it, and nothing serious will result. No persecution, in other words...
Weightman Geoffrey Tootell '50 of Cambridge has been elected track captain for next year it was announced at the team banquet held at the Varsity Club last night. John L. Moore '51 of West Palm Beach, Florida and Eliot House will be manager...
...University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida, three instructors were dismissed in May, 1948. All three were supporters of the Wallace party, and charged that they were victims of a "political purge...
Retailer Levine went to court. Like Florida's Druggist James ("Doc") Webb before him (TIME, April 18), Levine challenged the constitutionality of such price-fixing. Like Doc Webb, he won. Last week, in a unanimous decision, a five-judge appellate court threw the state board's price-fixing powers down the hatch. Unless the decision was reversed, there would soon be a wave of price-cutting all over the state. In July, 29 million gallons of aged whisky laid down right after VE-day would roll on to the market, ready to help the downward push...