Word: membership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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George R. Faxon, a Mathematics teacher at the Boston Public Latin School, was called before the McCarthy Committee on March 25, 1953, and invoked the Fifth Amendment, refusing to answer all questions concerning his associates and past or current membership in the Communist Party...
Faxon told the School Committee that he had not belonged to the Communist Party since 1951, when membership became illegal in the Commonwealth. He asserted that he had never violated the Constitutions of the United States or Massachusetts, which he swore to uphold when he took the teachers' oath...
...specific wrongs, but not solely for holding an opinion that is heretical to our concept of democracy. Stealing state secrets, conspiring to advocate the forceful overthrow of government or encouraging sabotage are included in the category of specific, punishable wrongs. Indicating an interest in Marxist philosophy or holding a membership card in the Communist Party have not been so included...
...loyalty oath, which asks the student to deny membership in the Communist Party and its fronts, will also be employed by the Air Force units here in the next few weeks...
...person refuses to sign the oath he can not become a member of the unit, while if he checks off membership in any of the organizations his papers will probably be sent to First Army headquarters for further checking...