Word: americans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Simultaneously, the American Civil Liberties Union, in a letter to President Conant, said that "The barring of Earl Browder from speaking at Harvard teaches a deplorable lesson in democracy, a lesson unworthy of Harvard's heritage or American tradition...
...author of "Techniques and Civilization" and "The Culture of Cities," who is at Harvard for a three week stay while he gives six lectures on "The Backgrounds of American Architecture" believes that the United States should actively aid France and England in order to halt "the demonic spread of Fascism, that may yet blot out our civilization...
...interview Mumford laid down the lines he thinks American participation should follow...
...First of all, we should permit a volunteer army to be raised here to fight on the side of the Allies," he said. "Our navy should be used to convoy every available American merchant vessel in order to carry food to France and England. Moreover, we should produce a large number of planes and train a huge corps of pilots in case Russia and Italy join Germany...
This statement came as the result of an invitation from the American Sociological Society asking Harvard to give its first dinner at Philadelphia. Formerly the invitation had been issued only to Chicago or Columbia...