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Throughout the decade there were other challenges to academic freedom. In 1934 six teachers in Toledo, Ohio, were threatened with dismissal for supposedly using radical textbooks, including one by New Deal official Rexford Tugwell. In North Carolina principal James M. Shields was fired for publishing Just Plain Larnin' (1934), a novel critical of the tobacco companies. The New York City Board of Examiners began an intrusive screening process to expose subversive teachers. In 1935 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, dismissed English professor Granville Hicks, a noted critic and a communist sympathizer; City College of New York refused to reappoint writer Morris Schappes to the faculty because he had led unionizing activities on campus. At Rollins College in Florida eight faculty members were dismissed in a dispute between the administration and the faculty over a 30 percent pay cut and innovative curriculum.
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