Word: oaths
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...received veiled threats that they will "flunk" if they become members of the A. S. U. The Boston School Committee, which has upheld the Headmaster's action, once more reveals itself an intolerant and bigoted foe of intellectual freedom. As at the time of the passing of the teachers' oath bill, it has again raised the dreaded cry "Moscow!" while tightening its grip over Boston's school system. The people of Massachusetts must distinguish between arbitrary and legitimate restriction of rights, and should rise to defeat this attempted subversion of their liberties...
...insists (and camp appearances bear out) that morale has risen immensely since the first days, when depression-sore enrollees refused by the thousands to take the CCC oath of allegiance, demolished a mess hall and destroyed trees at Camp Dix, N. J. But the rate of desertions is still high: 48,483 in fiscal 1938; 1,741 last December...
...same time, Hicks said that he would ignore the defl thrown at him by Thomas Dorgan, father of the Teachers' Oath Bill, who demands Hicks' dismissal from Harvard. Dorgan, an ex-representative now referred to as a "legislative agent," had requested Hicks to debate him on Communism and had offered to rent Langdell Hall for the proceedings, with gate receipts to charity...
...line Republican machine politician, Governor James's first act after he took oath was to slap down a document on the inaugural stand, announce: "I herewith submit my resignation as a judge of the Superior Court. . . ." By waiting until then, he made sure that he would choose his successor on the bench. Then from his glassed enclosure on Third Street, he watched Jay Cooke, Philadelphia's G. O. P. chairman, stride majestically along in the inaugural parade, saw pass the proud banner from Philadelphia's 26th Ward: "Home Ward of Late U. S. Senator WILLIAM S. VARE...
...educators and press and the National Education Association howled. This did not disturb Mr. Reardon, who proceeded to replace Dr. Smith's expert staff with "homebred" applicants. He sneered at Harvard professors, fought a bill to raise the compulsory school age to 16, championed a teachers' oath law. His critics fell silent, waited for a whirlwind. Last week it appeared that a hurricane would be Mr. Reardon's undoing...