Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Various organized student groups will stage a protest meeting Monday evening here to urge repeal of the Teachers' Oath Bill in the forthcoming session of the Massachusetts legislature, it was learned yesterday...
Among the state and nation-wide organizations sponsoring the campaign for repeal of the bill are the Massachusetts Progressive Committee, the National Student Federation of America, the American Student Union, the Student Christian Association, the American Federation of Teachers, the Society for Freedom in Teaching, and the American Federation of Labor...
...President Andrew Jackson, who resented the Court as hotly as Thomas Jefferson had and Franklin Roosevelt does, struck at the foundation of its power by urging repeal of a crucial section of the Judiciary Act of 1789. Unsuccessful, and only partly mollified as death made vacancies for Democrats, the hard-bitten old Indian fighter crystallized his view of the Supreme Court in a traditional comment on the decision which first gave Indians their legal status as government wards, "John Marshall has made his decision," Jackson roared, "Now let him enforce...
...question of "political strategy" plays a large part in Dr. Beatley's argument, and he asks that agitation for repeal be stopped on the grounds that it is injurious to the very cause it seeks to promote. This may be an easy way out of the difficulty, but completely misses the mark of satisfying the just demands of the teaching profession. The latter has always granted that the bill itself does not interfere with freedom of speech, while insisting that it represents a dangerous tendency and an opening wedge to more pernicious action...
Without doubt, the law, if alone, would soon be forgotten. But this would imply compete surrender on the part of the teaching profession and give encouragement to those who would furthere interfere with academic freedom. The only real victory would be in outright repeal of the law at the earliest possible moment. It would denote the complete vindication of the teachers by the people of the Commonwealth and a warning to the legislature against future action of this kind...