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...officials showed impatience with adults who were egging their children on. Delaware's Attorney General Albert Young announced that he would bring court action to revoke the charter of the race-baiting National Association for the Advancement of White People (TIME. Oct. 11). In Baltimore, Police Commissioner Beverly Ober declared on TV that he would henceforth enforce all regulations making it illegal to persuade children to stay out of school. U.S. Attorney General Herbert Brownell said that the Justice Department was also watching the fomenters of strikes and riots. For the moment, at least, such words spoke a good...
...Father Johannes Schwertfirm, Roman Catholic pastor in the Bavarian town of Ober-Teisendorf was in trouble with the law. Again and again, he had vainly asked the authorities for permission to enlarge his church, built in 1429 and far too small for his present congregation. Turned down because of the church's historical value, Father Schwertfirm, 63, carefully removed the church's holy objects, then set off the explosives he had planted and blew up the building. His sentence: two months in jail...
Biddle contends that post-war hysteria has produced such bills as New York's Feingold Law, Maryland's Ober Law, and the McCarran Act ("A curious hodgepodge of unwise and unworkable provisions.") He praised President Truman for the Federal Loyalty Procedure...
...Curb Communism Committee based their bill on the Maryland Subversives Act, better known as the Ober Law, even though it had yet to be reviewed by the Supreme Court. This made it punishable to advocate "alteration" of our form of government or to knowingly belong to a subversive organization. It permits firing state employees if there is "reasonable grounds" on which to suspect any applicant for a public...
Last Thursday the Senate passed a combination of the Ober bill and the two McCarthy-Dorgan bills, along with several amendments thrown in for good measure. The House accepted this version and the bill now lies on the Governor's desk. It looks as if the hasty legislators who began work last January may get their way after...