Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...large number of Columbia groups protested this decision. The P.C.A. called it a "complete break with the liberal traditions of American education," and noted that Professor Lyman Bradley, convicted with Fast for contempt, had been allowed to speak at Columbia in the summer...
...days later Brooklyn College President Harry D. Gideonse banned Fast from a Karl Marx Society speech because of a college policy of "refusing permission to speak on the campus to any person whose conduct is under judicial consideration...
...Then Fast was stopped at City College. Dean John J. Theobald gave the same reasons presented by Columbia and Brooklyn...
...Fast was not the only speaker banned at C.C.N.Y. On December 9, Theobald said "no" to a speech by Arnold Johnson, legislative representative of the Communist Party, because Johnson's party appeared on Attorney-General Clark's list of subversive organizations. The Student-Faculty Committee on Student Organizations upheld the ban. It said Johnson's speech would be "detrimental to the college," though it stated that Johnson could speak to any one group in a closed meeting...
...Howard Fast finally found an entree, at the Washington Square College of New York University. Dean Thomas C. Pollock had his doubts, but he gave his approval...