Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Roosevelt in 1939. Vienna-born, came to the U.S. at twelve, worked his way from $4-a-week delivery boy's job into top of the law class at Harvard (1906), worked briefly as a junior in a Manhattan law firm, then for assorted Government agencies, returned to teach at Harvard in 1914. Even before Roosevelt's first term, Frankfurter exhorted students to seek public service, after 1932 Frankfurter students-"Happy Hot Dogs" -were spotted throughout federal agencies. F.D.R. finally pushed the Harvard chair away from the reluctant, pince-nezed little (5 ft. 5 in.) professor...
...California Communists were convicted by a jury, sentenced to five years' imprisonment, and fined $10,000 each in 1952. Against them was a single-count indictment combining two sections of the 1940 Smith Act: 1) conspiring "to advocate and teach the duty and necessity of overthrowing the Government of the U.S. by force and violence"; 2) conspiring "to organize, as the Communist Party of the U.S., a society of persons who so advocate and teach . . ." On both elements of the charge the court last week found error...
...advocate overthrow of the U.S. Government as "an abstract principle divorced from any effort to instigate action to that end." Some of the loudest outcries came from newspapers that had championed McCarthy; they ranged from the Omaha World-Herald's gibe that it is now "all right to teach that the White House should be blown up," to the Cleveland Plain Dealer's invitation: "Well, comrades, you've got what you wanted. The Supreme Court has handed it to you on a platter. Come...
...spite of all the pressures. Lublin never really surrendered to the Red regime. It taught Greek, Latin, French, German and English-but not a word of Russian. It was for a time the only university to offer sociology, the only place to teach economics that was not, as one professor puts it, "all class struggle and the dictatorship of the proletariat." Though cautious, many professors found ways to get around the Communists...
Citation: "We honor you today as an eminent classical scholar, neither intimidated nor discouraged by the present glamour of the scientist . . . and as one who has come to understand and to live the meaning of the words 'and gladly teach...