Word: harmlessness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Teachers' Oath is in theory a harmless law which requires teachers to swear allegiance to the Federal and State Constitutions. Since Section 2a of this law stipulates that "nothing herein contained shall be construed to interfere in any way with the basic principles of the Constitution which assures every citizen freedom of thought and speech," the oath does not appear to deviate too far from the precepts of democracy. But, unfortunately, this law has quite a different de facto meaning when it is enforced in a community where there is strong local feeling against alien social systems like Communism...
...enlightened imperialists, the British try to interfere as little as possible with harm less native customs and religious observances. One such harmless ceremony occurred last week in Klang. While drums pounded, flutes shrilled, and ancient rites to drive away evil spirits were performed, British officials benevolently watched 50,000 natives, many of whom had walked through 60 miles of jungle, crown a new ruler, Sultan Alam Shah, sixth head of the 200-year-old State...
...means certain that Franklin Roosevelt had not outsmarted the House. Correspondents had a shrewd suspicion that he had asked for more than he wanted, that, so doing, he had deliberately given the House a harmless chance to display independence and, if economy should backfire, to take the rap from constituents -all of which might make Congress more tractable later...
...week arrived pictures of Leo Frenssen, a surprise victor in Belgium's recent municipal elections; bounding over the cane (see cut) by means of which he proved to Antwerp voters that at 58 he is still a man of no mean physical prowess. Councilman Frenssen was considered a harmless crank, hipped on the passe tenets of U. S. technocracy, until he and his "Technocrat Party" won 21,000 votes, enough to entitle them to six seats in the Antwerp municipal council. Since new councilmen will not take their seats until after January 1, perplexed Antwerp had a breathing spell...
Mandolins & Pistols. The ebb tide against which Mr. Downey now fights is led by another lawyer and reader of economics, a man whose father sold the University of California its history library and who was known in his younger days as a Progressive: Philip Bancroft, a harmless-looking but sharp-spoken gentleman-farmer from in back of Mount Diablo near Oakland...