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Conservatives rarely discriminated in their attacks on the schools, lumping progressives, liberals, socialists, and communists into one subversive group. For some, red-baiting was a business. The Hearst press specialized in boosting newspaper sales by making sweeping and unsubstantiated charges about subversive plots in the schools. "Red Radicalism," William Randolph Hearst hinted ominously, "has planted a soapbox on every campus in America." Cost-conscious school boards routinely dismissed teacher protests against salary cuts as communist inspired. Two teachers in Westchester County, New York, were fired as agitators after protesting a pay cut. Between 1930 and 1936 twenty-five teachers were dismissed and fifty-nine resigned because of budget cuts and protests at the University of Pittsburgh. In Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, thirteen instructors were dismissed on the excuse of their supposed radicalism. Other redbaiters were anticommunist zealots, none more so than Elizabeth Dilling, whose 1934 book, The Red Network, sketched out a fantastic...
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