Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Clay addressed both Houses of Congress, stood somberly and half-smiling as Representatives and Senators gave him standing ovations (his father, Alexander Stephen Clay was a U.S. Senator from 1897 to 1910). A few minutes later General Clay sat in a Pentagon press conference, firing answers at newsmen as fast as they could write them down. (Would Germany ally herself with Russia? ". . . Only if the Western powers [were] unwilling to accept Germany back into the community of nations." The future of East-West relations? "I don't think we should ever forget that this is a real struggle between...
Massachusetts needs young science teachers and needs them fast, Fletcher G. Watson, associate professor of Education, announced yesterday in the Harvard Educational Review...
...same day, December 12, Fast was refused twice more. The New York Board of Education refused to let him speak at the Midwood High School, across the street from Brooklyn College. And at Hunter College the Dean, over P.C.A. protests, turned Fast down. Both bans were based on Fast's legal status...
...Fast tried again. He succeeded in obtaining permission to speak at the C. C. N. Y. night session, but 15 minutes before the speech, the night session dean called a halt. He had been unaware, he said, of college policy on convicted speakers...
Every this policy was soon revised. Soon after Fast had been banned, a Committee to Study Student Organizations was formed. On April 12, 1948, the University put this committee's report into effect. From then on, all doubtful cases were to be referred to a student council committee for a final decision, and furthermore, indictment was rejected as a formal criterion for permitting or rejecting speakers...