Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tuesday the convention was ready to pick heroes and villains. No. 1 hero was Massachusetts' longtime (1917-35) Commissioner of Education Payson Smith, no friend of his State's widely abominated teachers' oath law, who was booted out of his job last autumn with the approval of Governor James Michael Curley. With but three dissenting votes, the cheering, clapping convention voted to condemn Villain Curley. Condemned also was the Federal statute forbidding teachers in District of Columbia schools to ''teach or advocate Communism...
...horrid petition is circulating in your midst, asking support of President Conant's stand against the Teachers' Oath Bill. Despise the dirty thing, chill it with boredom, shake it off in righteous anger, yield to it for the pure sentimental thrill, but don't sign. Harvard's President has disgraced her enough, without adding the scandal of her sons boasting when they should, in common decency, be ashamed...
...prevent unprotected youth in our schools and colleges from being deluded by communists into lives of bitter hate and frustration, fighting the invincible ideals of our great republic as set forth in the constitution. Politicians, even up to the President of the United States, have taken such an Oath for years and years without complaining, and the result has been good, clean, constitutional government. Obviously anyone who opposes the measure, since it attacks only communists, must be communistic, purveyors of the doctrines of mass murder and brutal oppression...
That the Student Council would take action to support President Conant in his opposition to the Teachers Oath Bill seemed imminent last night as a result of a petition started by several prominent Seniors. With over 300 names already registered, it was announced that a special meeting of the Council would be called for this evening to consider the matter...
...head and front of this (Fascist) element in support of the Teachers' Oath Law is William Randolph Hearst...