Word: order
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Solicitors collected $2,334 yesterday, bringing the drive's total to $16,786.14. In House standings, Eliot pulled ahead of Lowell with $1,970.50 to Lowell's $1,880.24. Dunster, Kirkland, Leverett, Winthrop and Adams follow in that order. The Committee has set a total goal...
...order to reach their destination in time, air-mail letters to the West Coast should be posted before December 19, to the Middle West and South before December 21, and to New England also before December...
...loyalty oath was issued in order to punish and prevent unorthodox political thinking and opinion, and not to prevent subversive action, is clear when we examine the Federal acts in force at the time of the adoption of the order. There existed at that time, and still exist, statutes punishing sabatoge, 50 USC 104-6; espionage, 50 USC 31-2; treason, 18 USC 1-3; sedition, 18 USC 10; and in addition, conspiracy to commit any of the above was punished under 18 USC 88. Also, Federal Civil Service employees are liable for discharge "for such cause as will promote...
...only does the loyalty order violate the substantive guarantees of the First Amendment, but it also violates the procedural right of Americans to due process. The standard of the loyalty order is that of "guilt by association," a doctrine first suggested by the Dies Committee in October, 1938 when it demanded the firing of teachers who attended meetings sponsored by alleged communist front organizations. In regard to the doctrine which is now being used by the President's Loyalty Board, Justice Murphy, in bridges v. Wixon, 326 US 135, 163 (1945) said: "The doctrine of personal guilt...
...list and is not required by law to give any reasons for his action; the organization has no right to a hearing; individuals accused of "disloyalty" are not tried by a jury, have no right to counsel, are not clearly informed of the charges against them; the loyalty order is ex post facto in effect, and there is no right to examine witnesses or evidence used against the accused. This is the type of un-American proceeding which is embodied in the loyalty order. This is the proceeding used by "patriots" to ferret out "subversives...