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Earl specifically directed his attack against MacLeish's views on the University of California teachers loyalty oath. When the state Court of Appeals invalidated the oath's use in that case, MacLeish was elated, Earl charged. Earl feels the oath is necessary for security...
...Abilene, Texas, with ten other immigrants, Irish-born Greer Garson (now Mrs. Elijah E. Fogelson) took her final oath of U.S. citizenship with tears streaming down her face. "I am so happy about being an American now," she said, and explained the tears. Just before the ceremony, she had stopped to wash a cinder from her right eye. Reaching for some eye lotion, she grabbed the wrong bottle, gave her eye a burning bath of perfume...
...then turned to the part of the bill calling for a lawyers' oath. Representative Key, a member of the committee, started wrangling with Batal over the application of this point to out-of-state lawyers temporarily practicing in Massachusetts. "Oh, now wait a minute," said Batal, getting a little red in the face, "don't go off on that angle." "Oh, don't get into a panic," Key replied...
...Sacramento courtroom last week, the two-year battle of the University of California loyalty oath came to its first legal decision. By unanimous vote, the three-man district court of appeals 1) declared the oath unconstitutional and 2) ordered the reinstatement of 26 professors who had been fired for not signing...
...effect of the decision, unless upset by appeal to a higher court, would reach far beyond the university campus. It would undoubtedly shake the validity of the recent California law requiring a special oath of every civil defense worker. It might also influence the courts in other states (e.g., Texas and Colorado) which had imposed similar loyalty oaths...