Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proposed to deprive any educational institution in the Commonwealth of its tax exemption privileges if it employed an advocate of "atheistic communism" on its faculty. During hearings before the General Court Education Committee the phrasing of H-442 was changed to direct it toward those who preached the "overthrow of the government by force or violence" rather than proponents of communism...
...final reading of the bill to the House yesterday, the clause "atheistic communism" was re-substituted in H-442 for "overthrow. . . by force...
State Representative Ralph W. Sullivan's bill to prevent the teaching of doctrines that advocate "the overthrow of the government by force or violence" in schools and colleges in Massachusetts comes up for a final reading in the House tomorrow. A spirited debate on the bill is anticipated...
...presented to the House, H. 442 also included an amendment imposing a $30 fine and a one year jail sentence on the individual found guilty of advocating overthrow of the government in the classroom...
Another amendment to the original version of Sullivan's suggested measure is the replacement of the phrase "one who is a member of the Communist Party and who advocates its doctrines of atheism," by the phrase, "one who advocates . . . overthrow . . . by force or violence...