Word: refugee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The teachers did their best to avoid answering. They invoked the First, Fifth, Sixth and 13th Amendments to the Constitution. In the end, 18 of them took refuge in the Fifth Amendment and refused to answer. As they testified, they knew that the New York City board of education was...
In 1937, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service set up the Aransas Refuge on the Gulf Coast to provide a protected wintering place for the cranes. Each April, the birds head north over the Midwestern states, then disappear into their unknown nesting grounds in Canada. Each September the surviving birds...
At the American Legion convention, where he made his first speech of the trip, the Illinois governor admonished his audience. Striking out at "specialinterest" groups, he said: "I have resisted them before, and I hope the Almighty will give me the strength to do so again and again. And I...
¶ "We must tell the Kremlin that never shall we desist in our aid to every man and woman of those shackled lands who seek refuge with us, any man who keeps burning among his own people the flame of freedom or who is dedicated to the liberation of his...
Fortunately, since Harvard still requires no oaths, except those connected with payment of debts to the University, there is no one pattern of action that one can recommend to all the men graduating today. One of the University's greatest attractions for its students is the diversity of views that...