Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...least six occasions, the name of the University crept into testimony, for and against the proposed measure to prevent the employment by Massachusetts educational institution of faculty members who "advocate the overthrow of the government of the United States of America by force or violence...
...hushed audience was the jury of twelve (plus four alternates) finally picked to hear the trial of eleven Communists, charged with conspiring to overthrow the U.S. Government. For weeks the Reds' lawyers had incessantly argued that their clients would not get a fair trial because New York's system of selecting juries discriminated against Negroes, Jews, the poor, and women. The jury finally chosen showed the quality of their long-winded complaint. Among the 16 were three Negroes, eleven women. The foreman: Mrs. Thelma Dial, a Negro dressmaker. Three of the jurors were unemployed. The only ostensibly well...
...present form the bill, H 442, would deprive of tax exemption any private school or college in Massachusetts that employe a faculty member who advocates the overthrow of the government by force or violence...
...change in the proposed act will be a switch from the words "members of the Communist Party, or one who teaches its doctrines of atheism" to "anyone who advocates the overthrow of the government by force or violence," the legislator declared...
...Teachers' Oath Law of 1935 requires all teachers in the state to swear that they will uphold the United States Constitution. Is only function has been to "expose" three instructors who refused to sign as a matter of principals. The Smith Act, making it a crime to advocate forcible overthrow of the U.S. government, has not brought a single conviction in this state since its passage by Congress in 1940. Only one man has ever been convicted under the Massachusetts Criminal Anti-Anarchy Act, and that conviction was quashed over 20 years ago. If there are "revolutionaries" among Massachusetts teachers...