Word: oklahomas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington, D.C., the Supreme Court finally set Dec. 6 for hearing on how its ruling should be carried out.* So far, seven states have announced that they would attend as friends of the court: North Carolina, Arkansas, Texas, Florida, Maryland, Tennessee and Oklahoma...
...constitutionality, the recent Supreme Court decision in the Oklahoma Loyalty Oath case declares unconstitutional any action making membership in a lawful organization in and of itself grounds for disqualification for state employ...
After that, Oklahoma scored twice more. California got another touchdown, mainly on short, sharp passes by Quarterback Paul Larson, but the Bears never got back in the game. Heading home to Oklahoma on the long end of a 27-13 score, Coach Wilkinson wasted no time working out new ways to make his boys sweat. If they could get by the University of Texas next month, they might finish the season undefeated. It was a heady thought...
...that comic books cannot be easily legislated off the newsstands. Five years ago New York's Governor Dewey vetoed a bill banning them on the ground that it was unconstitutional. Los Angeles County passed a similar law, only to have it knocked out by the courts. Nevertheless, in Oklahoma City, the city council recently passed an ordinance banning crime and horror comics. Some council members opposed the ordinance on the ground that the wording was so vague it could be used to ban the writings of Edgar Allan Poe or Arthur Conan Doyle. In Houston, spurred by Page...
Some communities, opposed to the Oklahoma City and Houston-type ordinances because they are concerned about the effects of scattershot censorship, have turned to a better method of control. In Cincinnati, for example, a citizens' committee of businessmen, educators, clergymen and parents rates every comic book published. In Canton, Ohio, a mayor's committee started "Operation Book Swap," in two days collected 12,000 horror comic books, which were exchanged at the rate of ten to one for hard-covered books, e.g., Swiss Family Robinson, Treasure Island, Alice in Wonderland...