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Twenty years later John L. Sullivan had come to Boston from Roxbury. At the advent of another tavern renaissance, society began its journey westward from Beacon Hill to Brookline and finally to Wayland, Weston, and Wellesley. Since 1900 the biggest thing that has happened to Boston is Mayor Curley and he is still happening. The sale of his library at Lauriat's a week ago started a near riot...
...dissenting opinion, William A. Waldron, chairman of the Wayland School Committee, and a member of the Executive Board of the Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, refused to vote for her dismissal on the charges presented. "It is our duty to uphold the right of all citizens--including teachers--to freedom of belief and lawful association in their private lives...
...Hale joined the Party in 1938 and dropped out when she moved to Wayland in 1950. Before the Massachusetts Commission on Communism, she said that she never formerly resigned from the Party, nor has she modified her beliefs. The Commission's repjort said that she "admitted that she had held various offices in branches of the Communist party, had been chairman, secretary, treasurer, literary distributor of various branches at various times in New York State and in Massachusetts...
...public hearing, before the Wayland School Committee, too, she used the First Amendment on the grounds that public bodies had no rights to interfere in personal political beliefs...
Since her firing she has held a succession of jobs, the first of which was working for a private charity. But although "I was told I was doing well at this job, I was suddenly fired." Miss Hale attributes both her dismissal by the Wayland schools and the loss of her charity job to malicious visits by "agents" of the Commission." "Is this Commission using permanent unemployment as a club to force people to become informers?" she asked last January...