Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When four New York City colleges banned author Howard Fast from speaking on their premises in December, 1947, they touched off a dispute over who may speak when and where in New York universities, a dispute which even now is disturbing the Brooklyn College campus...
...Fast was one of the 18 members of the Executive Board of the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee who were convicted for contempt of Congress because they would not show their books and records to the House un-American Activities Committee...
...June 27, 1947, a Federal court convicted Fast and his 17 associates of contempt and sentenced them each to three months in jail and a $500 fine. The case was immediately appealed, and the 18 were released on bail...
Through what Columbia Provost Albert C. Jacobs called "administrative oversight," Fast was given permission to speak on the campus on October...
...months later Provost Jacobs said Fast would not be allowed to make a scheduled speech before the P.C.A. on December 12. Columbia's policy, Jacobs said, was not to allow men under sentence or indictment to speak at the University...