Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Academic and political pressure for the repeal of the National Defense Education Act's disclaimer affidavit seems to be increasing. Several recent developments have considerably heightened chances for its repeal by the next Congress, but difficulties still remain...
...Yale simultaneously announced that they were withdrawing from the NDEA student loan program, pending removal of the affidavit. Then, at his press conference last week, President Eisenhower--although deploring the withdrawal of Harvard, Yale and other institutions--indicated that he understood their objections. He said that he favors repeal of the affidavit and retention only of the oath of allegiance...
Finally, last week-end, the Democratic Advisory Council included in its 1960 policy statement a plank advocating prompt repeal of the NDEA disclaimer affidavit...
Despite these developments, the bill for repeal--which was sent back to committee by the Senate last July--may face an uncertain future when Congress reconvenes next month. J. Peterson Elder, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, who administered the graduate fellowships under the NDEA last spring, says he is "hopeful about the Senate, but doubtful about the House." In his capacity as president of the Association of Graduate Schools, Elder has sent telegrams discussing the NDEA affidavit to Arthur S. Flemming, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, and to Senators Lyndon B. Johnson and Lister Hill...
...wiser' than Harvards outright rejection of government funds. B.U. has permitted students to participate in the loan program for one more year, "giving Congress a chance to work things out," he said. McCormack evaded questions concerning the fate of any bill in the next Congress which called for repeal of the loyalty affidavit requirement...