Word: oath
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...received veiled threats that they will "flunk" if they become members of the A. S. U. The Boston School Committee, which has upheld the Headmaster's action, once more reveals itself an intolerant and bigoted foe of intellectual freedom. As at the time of the passing of the teachers' oath bill, it has again raised the dreaded cry "Moscow!" while tightening its grip over Boston's school system. The people of Massachusetts must distinguish between arbitrary and legitimate restriction of rights, and should rise to defeat this attempted subversion of their liberties...
Charges that Conant, Justice Frankfurter, and the presidents of M. I. T. Tufts, Radcliffe, Wellesley, and Smith were all communists was made by Henry J. Sullivan, philosopher, who said he had been "liquidated" by Harvard's President. Sullivan had asked for retention of the oath law on the grounds that it was an important barrier against the spread of "red" propaganda...
While the Teachers' Oath became once more a potent issue in State politics yesterday, Harvard slipped into the background in the annual fight for the measure's repeal...
...insists (and camp appearances bear out) that morale has risen immensely since the first days, when depression-sore enrollees refused by the thousands to take the CCC oath of allegiance, demolished a mess hall and destroyed trees at Camp Dix, N. J. But the rate of desertions is still high: 48,483 in fiscal 1938; 1,741 last December...
...same time, Hicks said that he would ignore the defl thrown at him by Thomas Dorgan, father of the Teachers' Oath Bill, who demands Hicks' dismissal from Harvard. Dorgan, an ex-representative now referred to as a "legislative agent," had requested Hicks to debate him on Communism and had offered to rent Langdell Hall for the proceedings, with gate receipts to charity...