Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some of them, however, including recent oath legislation, contain broader provision, designed to keep Communists or members of "subversive" organizations out of the teaching profession...
...Later to be charged with taking an oath of citizenship to the U.S. while a member of a party pledged to overthrow the U.S. He was successfully defended before the U.S. Supreme Court by Wendell Willkie in 1943, and now heads the party in California...
...first Phi Beta Kappa Society came into existence December 5, 1776 at William and Mary in Virginia. It introduced all the ritual and mysticism employed by contemporary fraternities--an oath of secrecy, a badge, mottoes in Greek and Latin, a code of laws, an elaborate form of initiation, a seal, and a special hand-clasp...
When a committee member broke into the testimony to ask if Professor Dirk J. Struik of MIT had violated the teachers' oath law by alleged subversive activities, Coolidge replied that he was "not satisfied" that Struik has advocated violent overthrow of the national government. Struik has every right to free speech, Coolidge said, adding that "it's a healthy thing to have a few cranks in a university...
...defense table sat hulking, curly-haired Eugene Dennis, one of the eleven defendants. He had dismissed his lawyer, announcing he would plead his own case. His purpose was obvious; as his own attorney he could make speeches in court and get in a form of testimony without being under oath. Dennis made his side's first address...