Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ideals of American education" will be taken up by the Education Committee of the Massachusetts State Legislature within two weks. Behind its pious title, it contains threats against the tax-exempt status and the charter of any educational institution which "knowingly employs in its faculty one who advocates the overthrow of the United States government by force or violence." Representative Ralph Sullivan of Boston, author of the measure, claims that charters and tax exemptions are given to colleges by the state in return for such services as "improving standards of education" and "taching respect for authority." He contends that when...
...members of their faculties were subversive. The State Board of Education would have the power to cancel the tax exemption of a school that did not dismiss a suspected faculty member. If a teacher were actually indicted by the district attorney and convicted by the courts for advocating violent overthrow of the government, the institution which employed him would lose its charter. New York State's Lusk Laws, passed in 1921, are the only precedent for this sort of legislation. Characterized by Governor Al Smith as "vicious" and intolerant," they were repealed two years after their passage...
...evidence . . . seems to indicate that Cardinal Mindszenty was trying to impose the will of the Church on the state . . . Regardless of the evils of Communism, it is absurd to suppose that the government has not got a perfect moral right to protect itself against all subversive efforts to overthrow it. Aren't we trying twelve Communists on exactly the same charges in our own country...
...living in the United States. I like it here. I am not trying to overthrow the Government...
...noisy weeks since eleven top U.S. Communists had sat down in Manhattan's Federal Court, accused of conspiring to overthrow the Government by force, the wheels of justice had squeaked and groaned, but had not turned an inch. As a prelude to the trial, the five defense attorneys had challenged the federal jury system in New York. Then they had used up week after tedious week in shouted argument, breast-beating protest, endless examination of witnesses and a concerted caterwauling at the bench...