Word: middlesex
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the High Sheriff of Middlesex County, Howard W. Fitzpatrick, at the request of the University Marshall, will bring the meeting to order by striking the stage three times with his scabbard...
...revocation of Struik's suspension came one day after an indictment charging him with conspiracy to overthrow the Federal and State governments was quashed in Middlesex Superior Court. The quashing resulted from the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling that the Federal Smith Act superseded Massachusetts' subversives...
Finally came the catalyst to action. In 1946, the campus of defunct Middlesex Medical College was offered to a hastily-organized group of Boston businessmen. Middlesex was founded by Dr. John Hall Smith, an old New Englander who reacted against discrimination by other medical schools. Smith succeeded in maintaining a non-discriminatory admissions policy, but failed to maintain a satisfactory level of instruction...
...Nelson decision found that a state act such as the 1919 "Prohibition of Anarchy Law," under which Struik was indicted, was clearly contravened by Congressional action in the field--specifically, the Smith Act, the Internal Security Act, and the Communist Control Act. The decision, according to Ephraim Martin, the Middlesex Country District Attorney prosecuting Struik, "indicates an intent on the part of Congress to occupy exclusively the field of sedition, at least where the offense charged is a Federal crime...
...case of Struik, a former professor of Physics at M.I.T., is still pending before the Middlesex County Court. He was charged in 1951 under Massachusetts law with "conspiring to overthrow the governments of Massachusetts and the United States...