Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...test of the law's applicability to teachers is now in the embryo stage. In February of this year, George B. Thorp, a lecturer at Newark College of Engineering's School for Industrial Education refused to sign the loyalty oath, claiming privilege against self-incrimination under the U.S. and New Jersey constitutions...
...Hampshire's grotesque State House in Conord has produced a pair of bills designed to curb "subversives": an oath requiring teachers to swear allegiance to the state and federal constitutions, and a "little Dies Committee" to investigate disloyalty in the stae...
...introduced on the floor of the State House on January 20, 1949, by representative Harold H. Hart of Wolfeboro. The bills promptly ran into opposition, especially on the campus of the University of New Hampshire at Durham, but both finally passed--the committee measure on May 12, and the oath bill on June...
According to New Hampshire's Assistant Attorney General William S. Green, there have so far been no refusals to sign the oath...
Texas has a loyalty oath, a short, squat slip of paper which every student, officer, and employee of a Texas-supported institution of higher learning must sign...