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Boston politics are somewhat like the croquet game in Alice in Wonderland; the rules are topsy-turvy. A criminal conviction not only fails to tarnish a local candidate, but can enhance his political prospects. The latest example of this strange phenomenon is the victory of convict Charles Iannello, a political maverick from Roxbury's eighth ward, in the recent Democratic primary...
...Iannello has at least one distinguished predecessor. In 1940 the late James M. Curley ran for alderman and won while serving a term in the Charles St. Jail. Curley almost pulled it off a second time in 1949 when he was defeated in the mayoralty race after serving time for mail fraud. This political heritage is not lost on Iannello, who announced with deep emotion after his nomination: "Curley was my second father. I only wish I could fill his shoes, even one shoe...
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...
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...