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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although Representative Sullivan considers his measure necessary, there is no concrete evidence of sedition in the educational institutions of Massachusetts. The Teachers' Oath Law of 1935 requires all teachers in the state to swear that they will uphold the United States Constitution. Is only function has been to "expose" three instructors who refused to sign as a matter of principals. The Smith Act, making it a crime to advocate forcible overthrow of the U.S. government, has not brought a single conviction in this state since its passage by Congress in 1940. Only one man has ever been convicted under...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Bill of Goods | 3/12/1949 | See Source »

...consistently failed to uphold his bipartisan foreign policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The President and Politics | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

...measures on which he broke with Franklin Roosevelt was the court-packing bill. Since then he has jumped the fence only to nibble at such lush political grass as last year's Republican tax cut. He voted for the Taft-Hartley bill, then changed front, voted to uphold Harry Truman's veto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Party Man | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

Harvard's delegates to the recent AVC convention voted to uphold National Planning Committee decisions on all three of the major issues before the gathering, the Harvard AVC chapter was told last night at PBH. But the delegates each presented differing reasons in their reports for voting as they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Local Delegation Reports National AVC Convention | 12/10/1948 | See Source »

Crohn's subsequent presence at a New York Area Council meeting as a delegate in deflance of NAC caused the suspension of 13 chapters of the AVC in New York and the ousting of Morris Pottish, chairman of the Area Council. The Harvard delegates voted nine to one to uphold the authority of the national bodies in these matters, but deplored the methods used for discipline...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Local Delegation Reports National AVC Convention | 12/10/1948 | See Source »

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