Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Protesting against the expulsion of Robert Burke from Columbia University, the Civil Liberties Committee of the Harvard Student Union at their first organization meeting last night passed a resolution to send a telegram to President Nicholas Murray Butler...
Burke, president of his class, was expelled for speaking at an outdoor meeting last May called by the American Student Union as an act of protest against Columbia's sending of a delegate to the celebration at Heidelberg University...
Caught in the no-man's land between the two political parties now starting their death struggle barrage, the lot of the average broadcasting company is not a happy one. The Columbia system singed its fingers badly Saturday when it cut from the air Senator Vandenburgh's "debate" against Mr. Roosevelt's recorded voice, simply on a technicality. But despite the clamor of censorship, the company's stand appears well founded. For who would dare to speak on the radio if his words might at any time thereafter be trumpeted throughout the nation and knocked silly by a clever political...
Appointed. President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University, Harvard Professor Clarence Henry Haring, President John Lenord Merrill of All America Cables, National Grand Councilor Francis P. Matthews of the Knights of Columbus, President Thomas John Watson of International Business Machines Corp.; by President Roosevelt; to solicit U. S. funds for a lighthouse in Santo Domingo in honor of Christopher Columbus; in Washington...
...escaped from this environment when his father grew prosperous in the building business. He attended Columbia University, whence he graduated to literary and radical circles in Greenwich Village. Deeply influenced by Max Eastman and Floyd Dell. Freeman was a Socialist during the War, supported the action of Columbia's Historian Charles Beard, who resigned in protest against the expulsion of pacifist professors. Working as a foreign correspondent in Paris and London after the War, Freeman covered the crash of the ZR-2, worked under Floyd Gibbons, conducted a long international correspondence on political and literary matters with...