Word: overthrowing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Struik, professor of Mathematics at M.I.T. suspended until the outcome of his trial, was indicted for conspiring to overthrow, by force and violence, the government of the United States and the government of the Commonwealth...
...spurn a dollar from the government he hoped to overthrow, he enrolled under the G.I. Bill of Rights at the University of the Philippines. In 1948 he married Celia Mariano, a Filipino girl who attracted Pomeroy for special reasons: "I deliberately chose for a wife an active comrade in the movement so that there will be no antagonisms or divided loyalties." Known as "Bob" and "Rene," the Pomeroys became regular instructors at a "Stalin University" attended by Huk guerrillas in the Sierra Madre mountains. In the records of the Philippine police they were listed...
...part of the morning shows the majority of the 40 assorted taxi-drivers, ministers, old ladies, and other onlookers hurried out. But a few remained to see if Shubow and his associates could successfully challenge the constitutionality of a 1919 Massachusetts statute making it a crime to advocate the overthrow of the Commonwealth by force...
Attorneys for Dirk Jan Struik, suspended M.I.T. professor of Mathematics, and Harry E. Winner, a Malden advertising executive, will today attempt to quash the indictments against the two men for advocating the "violent overthrow of the Commonwealth." The session--a purely technical one--will start at 10 a.m. in Middlesex County Superior Court, Criminal Session...
...Feinberg Law decision affords an excellent illustration of this. Passed two years ago by the New York legislature, the Feinberg Law directs the Board of Regents to deny subversives--those who advocate violent overthrow of the government--the privilege of teaching in New York's public schools. It provides that, after full hearings, the Board of Regents may declare an organization subversive, and may refuse any member of that organization a teaching position. The basis for this law is that employment as a teacher places limits on freedom of thought and expression...