Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leaders of the Ole Miss chapter of the Association of American University Professors, which has fought a series of battles for academic freedom for the last four years. Just this summer, the AAUP got the courts to throw out the clause of the Mississippi loyalty oath which requires teachers in state schools to list all the organizations they have belonged to or contributed to in the last five years. The court case was surprisingly simple to win, but preparing the case, Harrington explains, took all the spare time he, and several other Ole Miss professors had for most...
...Supreme Court reverses the lower court order, Maddox in all probability would win in the overwhelmingly Democratic legislature. The Democrats have signed a loyalty oath to support their party's nominees as a condition for their entrance in Georgia's Democratic primary...
...members of the General Court will stand up, face the center aisle and applaud as the new state officers, soldiers, chaplains and state troopers file in. Then, the inauguration ceremony will continue as it always has with just one change. The men taking the oath of office will swear to perform their duties for four years instead...
...Doctors is a prime example of a respectable purpose spoiled by demagoguery. Doctors themselves no longer deny the need of putting their house in order; the more conscientious have begun to re-examine the gap between contemporary medicine and the Hippocratic oath. Where this book rests on statistics, it effectively states its case: a falling life expectancy in U.S. males, an infant-mortality rate that ranks eleventh in the roster of civilized nations (behind even Czechoslovakia), a medical educational establishment that not only fails to meet the numerical need but sometimes licenses inferior and undedicated...
...charges of heresy, violation of his ordination vows and conduct unbecoming a clergyman. So far, at least 30 other bishops have endorsed the request, which declares that Pike's denial of the Trinity, the physical Resurrection of Christ and other doctrines represents a clear violation of his Episcopal oath to defend and uphold the faith...