Word: smith
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eleven Communists had been indicted and found guilty under the Smith Act. The law, passed by Congress in 1940, and never finally tested by the U.S. Supreme Court, made it a crime to teach or advocate the violent overthrow of the U.S. Government, or to conspire to commit such acts. There was no question of an overt act of violence; no revolution had actually been attempted. Had the activities of the eleven then constituted for the U.S. what Justice Holmes once characterized as "clear and present danger"? The defendants had merely plotted and planned, taught and preached. No matter...
Questioned about the recent conviction of some Wisconsin Trotskyites under the Smith Act, Schirmer said the Trotskyites were allied with the most fascistminded industrialists and did not deserve civil-rights...
Inauguration of President Wright, formor profesor of Government at Harvard, highlighted the first day of Smith's 75th anniversary convocation. Delogates from colleges and universities all over the world heard Wright assert, "Most women who go to college will continue to make marriage, children, and homemaking their principal careers...
When Professor Benjamin Wright, inaugurated yesterday as President of Smith College, decided to leave Harvard last year there were a lot of disappointed people in Cambridge. They already knew what the Smith selection committee had found out--that Professor Wright was a remarkable administrator, a fine teacher, and a man who had a real insight into educational problems...
...Smith College has made a happy choice. President Wright deserves and should have a successful term...