Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Massachusetts' Teachers' Loyalty Oath came under attack Wednesday, when a Salem representative introduced a motion before the Joint Committee of Education requesting its repeal...
...oath, which is being challenged in the state courts by two M.I.T. professors, must be signed by all public and private school teachers in Masachusetts, including university professors...
...Michael J. Harrington (D-Salem) also urged the repeal of a similar oath which is required of public employees. He was joined in his appeal by members of the Massachusetts Federation of Teachers and of the American Jewish Conference...
Each teacher who takes the loyalty oath must affirm support of the constitution of the United States and of Massachusetts. He must also promise to "faithfully discharge the duties of the position," a clause which the professors believe to be dangerously vague...
Secretary of State Dean Rusk dropped one such hint when, in a press conference on the fifth anniversary of his oath taking as Secretary of State (a tenure exceeded by only eight of his 51 predecessors), he remarked that the response to U.S. peace efforts had been overwhelmingly favorable "except from those who could in fact sit down and make peace." At the same time, cables advising that air strikes might soon be resumed began flowing to U.S. ambassadors in the 40-odd nations that U.S. emissaries had visited when the peace offensive was launched at Christmas...