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...Frank E. Ober, whose name is attacked is Maryland's subversives act, was turned down by the University in 1949 when be demanded the disciplining of two faculty members...
...prominent Maryland lawyers, chairman of the State Senate committee that drew up the Ober law that name year, asked President Conant to crack down on John Clardi, assistant professor of English, and Harlow Shapley, director of the University Observatory, for "giving aid and comfort to the enemy." Ober wrote refusing to contribute to a Law School fund drive. He graduated from the Law School...
...charged that Clardi had backed Progressive Party money campaigns, thus helping the party fight the very laws Ober was helping write. And, he stated, Shapley had aided "in a propaganda effort with a foreign hostile power . . ." by chairing the 1949 Cultural and scientific Conference for World Peace in New York...
...special State legislative commission investigating Massachusetts Communist activities will submit a report to the Legislature at 4 p.m. today recommending the enactment of a law similar to the Maryland Ober Act, it was reported last night...
...Ober Act provides for a fine of $20,000 or 20 years imprisonment, or both for persons convicted of teaching, aiding, or advocating the alteration or overthrow of the present constitutional form of government by force...