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...liberal tabloid Daily News had acted properly in firing Rewriteman Vern Partlow, and in refusing to rehire Movie Reviewer Darr Smith. Both men had been named by former Communists testifying before the House Un-American Activities Committee as their onetime fellow members. Both men had refused to say under oath if they were, or had been Communists. The News's Executive Editor Lee F. Payne fired Partlow and struck Darr Smith's name off a rehiring list...
...There was no walkout-no rump convention . . . Later that week, Compton, a longtime friend of Henry Zweifel's, received instructions to file a false return on that convention, naming a Taft slate of delegates and claiming a resolution had been passed endorsing Taft. When Compton was placed under oath before the state executive committee, he admitted that he had participated in the convention that endorsed Eisenhower, and he admitted that no other county conventions had been held, yet the state executive committee voted 39 to 19 to seat his 'dream' delegation...
Thus in 1935, when Massachusetts passed a "Teachers Oath" requiring all instructors to support the constitution. Conant opposed the bill before the Legislature as an unnecessary reflection on the teaching profession, but did not like Professor Kirtley Mather, at first refuse to sign the oath once it had become law. When testifying before the Legislature Conant dodged the question to what he would do about Communists of his own faculty...
...significant fact, however, is that Russell himself refuses to say flatly that he will abide by the convention decision. The farthest he will go is: "I don't foresee anything that will cause me to leave the party. But I'm not going to take any paralyzed oath not to bolt...
There is a distinguished set at the Medical School whose members got there without ever passing a Chem course or struggling through an aptitude exam. They never take the Hippocratic oath yet cheerfully devote their lives to the cause of humanity...