Word: swears
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democrats' letter opposed University acceptance of $26,807, under the Defense Education Act of 1958. In addition to signing a loyalty oath, borrowers must must also swear that they do not believe in or support any organization that "believes in or teaches the overthrow of the United States Government...
...have been won, U.S. colleges and universities last week were skirmishing with their old hoodoo, the loyalty oath. Source of the trouble: a paragraph in last summer's $887 million National Defense Education Act, which provides that to qualify for a loan or fellowship, a student must 1) swear allegiance to the U.S., and 2) affirm that he "does not believe in, and is not a member of and does not support any organization that believes in or teaches the overthrow of the U.S. Government by force or violence or by any illegal or unconstitutional methods...
...Immature. At the head of the Congress is a Honolulu-born, 39-year-old racist who runs a native trading post on the outskirts of Salisbury and bears the ironic name of David Blackman. Members of Blackman's Congress must swear not to "contribute to multiracialism in any form" and to resist all efforts to give Negroes more power "in their present immature state." A branch of the movement opened in Northern Rhodesia, and members began signing up in Kenya and Tanganyika...
Square Deal. In Boulder, Colo., the coordinator of scholarships at the University of Colorado admitted that it is almost impossible to find students qualified for the Herrick Loan Fund, which can go only to recipients who do not drink, smoke or swear...
...Angles. In Derby, England, Police Sergeant Joseph Shorthouse stood up to give testimony, said: "I swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and anything but the truth...