Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dirk J. Struik, suspended professor of Mathematics at M.I.T., who was indicted in 1951 for advocating "the violent overthrow of the Commonwealth," yesterday said he had received no notice from the committee asking him to appear...
...saying to Sean O'Casey. . . : 'You may not teach the drama,' or telling Picasso: 'You cannot teach art in the United States.'" But, asked Jenner, what if a teacher "slants his teaching toward the Communist Party, which party's avowed purpose is the overthrow of this Government?" That, replied Shaftel, is something that "must be settled by the academic profession . . . This line of questioning is improper and does harm to the teaching profession...
...fellow countrymen on the mainland. Such an offensive is not in the nature of the conquest of mainland China by the island of Formosa. It is in the nature of 8,000,000 Chinese on Formosa going to the mainland to help the 450 million Chinese there to overthrow the Communist yoke which they themselves wish to overthrow...
...women, went about their work conscientiously. Only after seven days of reading and discussion did they reach their verdict, delivered last week in the federal court in Manhattan. The verdict: the 13 defendants were guilty as charged of conspiring to teach and advocate the violent overthrow of the U.S. Government...
...visible party is in worse shape today than it has been in 30 years. Items: ¶Virtually the entire known leadership is in trouble with the law. Eleven members of the twelve-man national committee were convicted in 1949, at the marathon trial before Judge Medina, of conspiracy to overthrow the U.S. Government. Of the eleven, eight are in jail; three jumped bail and are still fugitives. The party's nominal boss, William Z. Foster, 71, is under indictment. Last year 21 members of the Communist second team were indicted, including Elizabeth Gurley Flynn; 13 of them...