Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Loyalty oath" laws have long been in effect in certain states. Massachusetts passed its Teachers Oath Act in 1935. Other states, such as New Hampshire, California, and Texas, now have such measures pending in their respective legislatures...
...Florida, the House Communism Investigating Committee is getting ready to start a study of possible Communist influences at the University of Florida, Florida State University, and Florida A. and M. College. Nobody has been dismissed as yet, but the legislature plans to ask instructors for a loyalty oath and intends to question them on their political party affiliations, on their possible past connections with the Communist party, and on their views about racial segregation...
Penalty for not complying with the oath was to be $500 in fines and ten days in jail...
...California legislature is considering five "loyalty oath" bills, and a measure to make it a misdemeanor "to teach any system or plan of government except the American system upon any state school property or to inculcate preference in the mind of any pupil for any such system...
Wide-spread objections have been raised to the oath legislation, which would apply to labor union members, candidates for office, elected state officials, civil service employees, and employees on public contract jobs...