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...Progressives in the Senate, devoted to Senator Cutting, hotly resented the Administration's efforts to displace him through the Chavez candidacy and subsequent contest (TIME, May 20). This week, as Senator-Designate Chavez reached Vice President Garner's desk, after marching down the aisle to take his oath, the only Progressives present-Senators La Follette. Norris, Johnson, Nye and Shipstead-ostentatiously rose, stalked out of the chamber, returned when the ceremony was over...
...echoes are purged of Redness by a voice whose patriotism is matched only by its volume-the voice of one Roberta Keene Tubman, leading America's Good-Will Union* in "The Star-Spangled Banner" on the steps of the Sub-Treasury where George Washington took his inaugural oath April 30, 146 years...
...people of the U. S. formally abolished slavery. On July 28, 1868 they granted citizenship to all natives and naturalized persons, guaranteed due process of law for every citizen, disqualified for Federal office Confederate leaders who had broken their oath to support the Constitution. On March 30, 1870 they clinched the franchise for Negroes. These acts were the proclamations of Johnson's Secretary of State William Henry Seward and Grant's Secretary of State Hamilton Fish, three-fourths of the States having notified the Secretary in each instance that they had ratified the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments...
...they would climax a mass meeting in Mandel Hall by parading around the Midway. They paraded one block before a tiny band of students blocked their way, called them Communists (see p. 30), pelted them with eggs and stink bombs. Routing their adversaries, the pacifists chanted the Oxford peace oath: "We refuse to bear arms for our country in time...
...serious implications of this measure, aimed at the handful of Communists in the teaching profession have not been fully considered. A full-blooded Communist would hardly be averse to oath-taking if his "mission of revolution" could be advanced by continuing to teach. More explanation of Communism would undoubtedly cause many unwarranted dismissals. It is impossible to subscribe to the opinion of our super-patriotic organizations that ignorance is bliss. Nor is it possible it support yellow-press inspired and emotional legislating rather than reason in the effort to thwart Communism...