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...Jersey school board impaired the obligation of contracts in reducing the salaries of school teachers who had fixed tenures of office? Through the chamber's marble columns, Court Clerk Charles Elmore Cropley-he who held the cellophane-covered Bible on which Franklin Roosevelt renewed his oath of office (TIME, Feb. 1)-appeared and laid some mimeographed sheets before Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes. Presently a blond page boy popped up and laid similar sheets before the other Justices...
President Beatley of Simmons College in an interview with the Boston Transscript proposed solving the teachers oath law difficulty by allowing it to become a dead letter to be quietly repealed at some time in the distant future. Unlike other opponents of oath legislation, he does not realize that such a law can never become a "dead letter". As long as it remains on the statute books of the Commonwealth it must be, if not an outright threat, at least an unwarranted reflection upon the teaching profession...
...student Franklin, for Franklin's mother, wife, sons, daughters-in-law, grandchildren, and miscellaneous kin* and friends. Act II lasted for 40 minutes, from the time Franklin Roosevelt entered the robing room in the Senate wing of the Capitol to the time he went out to take the oath. Outside, under a sea of ineffective umbrellas, several thousand soggy people who had for hours been progressively impregnated with cold rain stamped their feet in impatience. On the open pine-board stands continuously flushed by the downpour some Congressmen and distinguished guests took an icy showerbath in full regalia...
...address will consider the rights and duties of teachers respecting instruction on various points of view toward the social sciences and other controversial recently involved in "Teachers Oath" legislation...
Were the cast study one of a reactionary chief executive ousting a college president for refusing to force teacher's oath on his faculty it would be more clear cut. But even a Progressive La Follette can, perhaps unconsciously, trammel the freedom he professes to hold dear. Fortunately there will be a public hearing on the case. If the evidence warrants removal there can be no complaint. But distressing and disastrous will it be if the power motive seems to stimulate such action...