Word: affirmation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard Law School, and Reverend E. Walter Chater, head of a local church, formed a committee to protest the Oath. Morally, they appealed that "loyalty cannot, in our opinion, be legislated," while they claimed that the oath was unconstitutional because it read, "I also do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I do not believe in the overthrow of our form of government," condemning lawful, as well as illegal, change...
...Harvard Law School, and Reverend E. Walter Chater, head of a local church, formed a committee to protest the oath. Morally, they appealed that "loyalty cannot, in our opinion, be legislated," while they claimed that the oath was unconstitutional because it read, "I also do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I do not believe in the overthrow of our form of government," condemning lawful, as well as illegal, change...
...Lubells are communists we do not sympathize with their politics. But we do affirm their right to be unpopular, even to be wrong, and we will treat them as human beings as long as we admit ourselves to be fallible and imperfect. Carl Sapers '53 Robert Layzer '53 Anthony Bellenson...
...Paso, Scriptwriter Michael (Five Fingers) Wilson, who refused to affirm or deny Communist Party membership before a House committee in 1951, pooh-poohed the charges of subversion. Said he: "This picture is pro-American in the deepest sense. It is a picture that depicts honest working men & women of our country in a light most Hollywood films have ignored ... The film does not inflame racial hatreds. On the contrary, it stresses brotherhood and unity ..." But by that time, few people seemed concerned with what the picture itself...
...petition reads: "We, the undersigned, hereby affirm our interest and support of a proposal for selected Radcliffe students to represent Harvard as official cheerleaders at freshman and varsity basketball games only. This petition will be presented to the Student Council...