Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hill, his credentials were not essentially different from those of the other members of a promising G.O.P. Senate freshman class?Illinois' Charles Percy, Oregon's Mark Hatfield, Tennessee's Howard Baker and Wyoming's Clifford Hansen. "There was no special fanfare for me," mused Brooke after taking the senatorial oath on Jan. 10. "I felt like a member of the club. They didn't overdo it. They didn't underdo it." He and the other Republican tyros have seats in the same section of the Senate chamber?an area that is called "Boy's Town...
...term reversal is not unprecedented, but it does require agile rethinking on the court's part. The 1952 case, decided by a 6-3 majority, did not speak to the 1967 issue raised by three New York State University faculty members who deliberately refused to sign a loyalty oath in order to test the law. Another university employee also refused the oath. Their points were that "pertinent constitutional doctrines have since rejected the premises upon which" the earlier conclusion rested and that the law is unconstitutionally vague. Pursuing the first point for the majority, Justice William Brennan noted that...
...number of different proposals have been forwarded privately for changing the current situation. It has been suggested that law firms coming to interview at Harvard be required to sign an oath saying that they do not discriminate, or, short of this step, that Harvard send a stronger anti-discriminatory statement to these law firms than it does...
Although graduate school officials have focused their criticism so far primarily on the theoretical implications of the loyalty oath, it is this statement of crimes which could in practice prove the most damaging section of the act. Hundreds of students who have participated in civil rights activity in the South could be deprived of NDEA money at the whim of the government. The act doesn't specify that officials must deny funds to students who have been convicted of such crimes; but it provides ready justification for any future bureaucrat who is so inclined...
...reason for requiring the statement, and none was given by the legislators who introduced it. The original legislation, passed in 1958, obligated students to sign a disclaimer, swearing that they didn't believe in or belong to any organization which advocated overthrowing the government, in addition to the loyalty oath. Harvard helped lead the fight against the disclaimer--losing about three million dollars in the process when it refused to accept money on these terms. And in 1962, the nation's universities finally persuaded Judge Howard Smith, then the courtly autocrat of the House Rules Committee, to remove the disclaimer...