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Prickling both men last week was Knight's charge that a Nixon emissary had offered him any state job he wanted if he would only get out of the race (TIME, Oct. 6). Cried Nixon: "I categorically deny the charge, and I am willing to state this under oath and with my hand on the Bible." Bawled Knight: "I've taken over 500 oaths in my political career. I'll swear on a Bible to this...
...sentenced to 15 years in prison, but received amnesty shortly before the bloody Budapest revolt in 1956 that sent Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty into refuge at the U.S. legation.* Grosz was able to keep the church alive in Red Hungary only by obeying most regime directives, including an oath of allegiance to the Communist constitution...
...loyalty oath provision, section 1001(f) of Title II of the Act, provides that to be eligible for grants, or for loans administered through their university, applicants must, first, disclaim membership in, belief in, or support of subversive organizations; and, second, affirm their allegiance to the United States and its Constitutional system.) For several reasons, most of them political, university lobbies have in the past two years concentrated on lifting the disclaimer affidavit from the Act, declaring the loyalty oath at least "positive...
Thus, the University clearly did not regard the Education Act in the 1958 beat-the-Russians spirit, of which the use of Defense in the title of the Act was a clear indication. The loyalty oath and disclaimer were debated in 1959 as a question of academic freedom because the NDEA had every potentiality of becoming the foundation and reference point for future governmental aid to education. The requirement it imposed upon the University and its students was felt to be objectionable both in itself and as a precedent that will influence the direction which future education aid bills might...
That summer, a bill for repeal of the oath and affidavit sponsored by Kennedy and Sen. Joseph S. Clark '55 (D.Pa.), failed to pass Congress, and Pusey soon decided that "going on record" was not enough. The academic community was criticized original for its negligent lobby that let the loyalty provisions pass through Congress unnoticed in 1958, and one year later universities had failed to make clear their opposition to the oath and5PRESIDENT PUSEY...