Word: oklahomas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Oklahoma legislature passed a law requiring all state employees to take a loyalty oath in which they had to pledge that they had not belonged-within five years of taking the oath-to any organization which the ILS. Attorney General called subversive or a Communist front. Seven teachers at Oklahoma A. & M. refused. When they were fired, they argued in court that this was a violation of the 14th Amendment, i.e., they had been deprived of property (their salaries) without "due process of law." Last week the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously upheld the teachers...
...Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi. Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina. Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia. The four "permissive" states: Arizona, Kansas, New Mexico and Wyoming. The District of Columbia falls somewhere in between: the schools have always been segregated and Congress has officially recognized the fact without actually ordering segregation. For other news of Attorney Davis, see EDUCATION. British magazines and newspapers, in reporting last week's Supreme Court hearings, missed an interesting statistic: the percentage of U.S. Negroes attending college (.5%) is higher than the percentage of the entire British population attending college...
...kidnaped nine people, killed six of them. He threw five of his victims-Carl Mosser of Atwood, Ill., his wife and three children-down a well in Joplin. He shot the sixth. Seattle Salesman Robert Dewey, on the Southern California desert. He was caught in Mexico, returned to Oklahoma City to answer for the Mosser killings, and sentenced to 300 years in prison. But last year a California jury sentenced him to death for killing Salesman Dewey. Last week Billy Cook walked into the gas chamber at San Quentin, breathed cyanide fumes and paid the penalty for murder. "I hate...
...Damn it all," said one worried oil official last week, "a tough Oklahoma oil driller just isn't going to be satisfied to work here for six days a week and then relax with a bottle of Coca-Cola." But neither was a tough old Lion of the Desert, rich as Croesus, apt to be worried by such deprivation, when the welfare of his sons was at stake...
First the Fighting Irish tied Pennsylvania, the Ivy League champions. Then they licked Texas, Southwest Conference titleholders. Purdue, co-holder of the Big Ten title, was the next victim. Along the route, Leahy's green youngsters, seasoning up under one of the toughest schedules in the country, upset Oklahoma, the Big Seven champions. Last week, facing unbeaten Southern California, the nation's No. 2 team and Pacific Conference titleholder, the underdog Irish pulled off the biggest upset of the season. At the final whistle, thanks to five pass interceptions and three recovered fumbles, Notre Dame was ahead...