Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American Civil Liberties Union stated, "No proper relation exists between the Attorney-General's blacklist, on which Mr. Johnson's exclusion was based, and the standards for selecting speakers to college groups...
Dalton Trumbo and Adrian Scott, screen-writers who were then under indictment for contempt of Congress, were barred from an April 20, 1948 meeting. They were scheduled to talk on civil liberties. A meeting on civil rights, set for January 17, 1949, with Communist Party official Emanuel Blum as speaker, was also not allowed...
Democratic leaders curtailed the administration's program for this session of Congress yesterday by stripping the hotly contested health insurance and civil tights proposals off the "must" list. At the same time, Senate Majority Leader Scott Lucas indicated he expects no Senate action this session on President Truman's $4,000,000,000 tax boost plan, the new Brannan farm plan, or the foreign arms program...
...Your new administration has called forth from Board members, from students, from faculty, from all ranks among employes of the college, the charge of domination, repression, threat, violation of civil liberty and of academic freedom and of the light to organize...
Eight days later, the administration was berated by a field investigating team of the American Civil Liberties Union. "By his autocratic attitude and by his and the Board's apparent lack of understanding of the traditional American guarantees of academic freedom and tenure, Dr. Ashby has placed Olivet College in grave danger economically and as an educational institution." the A. C. L. U. stated...