Word: stateser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cunard's "Scythia" and "Samaria" were former iuxury liners which had been pressed into service as troop transports during the war and had only partly recovered. So were Holland-American's "Volendam" and "Tabinta." The United States Lines ran three little war-design ex-transports with the ominous names of...
Still other scholarships call for "students of Anglo-Saxon parontage," or for students who are "descendants from at least two grandparents, or more remote ancestors, who were natives of the United States or of Great Britain."
Despite the relative freedom of border crossings,* and even allowing a tolerance for the imponderables of red tape, most Canadians felt such incidents occurred all too frequently. Said the Ottawa Citizen: "United States immigration authorities have been applying a 'thought control' policy that in recent months has caused...
The June statement urged that "members of the Communist Party of the United States should not be employed as teachers," but warned against branding as" 'Red or 'Communist'...teachers and other persons who in point of fact are not Communists, but who merely have views different from their accusers."
At the present time more than 30 states have teachers' loyalty tests on the statute books. Massachusetts' loyalty oath dates back to 1935.