Word: iannello
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This is the time of year for slush, not only in the streets of Cambridge, but in the legislative chambers of the State House. As regular as the weather, and about as agreeable, are the bills to bar Communist teachers proposed by representative Charles Iannello and others...
While the present teachers' oath simply requires affimation of the Constitution, H. 707, one of Iannello's perennials, demands a further statement that the teacher has never been a Communist party member. The statement is superflous to the oath and its retroactive nature is surely constitution ally objectionable...
Representative Charles Iannello (D-Boston), who introduced two of the bills and spoke in favor of all three at the hearing, was rather dubious about the prospects for the bills. Saying that he would agree to some modifications in the bills to make them constitutionally more palatable, he feared, however, that "all the teeth might be taken out of them...
Wednesday, Iannello called Harvard a "nest of Communists," and yesterday he reiterated his stand, saying "most of our complaints about Communist teachers have come from there." He had no comment on the opposition to his bills expressed at the hearing by Samuel H. Beer, professor of Government, and Mark De Wolfe Howe '28, professor of Law, but repeated his condemnation of professors who invoked the Fifth Amendment...
Their condemnations followed an impassioned attack on colleges in this state, especially Harvard, Boston University, and M.I.T., delivered by Representative Charles Iannello of Boston, the sponsor of two of the bills. Iannello, who supported all three bills, observed, "It is a well known fact that Harvard is a nest of Communists...