Word: groups
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard Student Union Labor Committee met last night in the first meeting of the year. Plans for the organization of the committee into a large membership group were discussed...
Fortunately, facts will not bear out this saga of declining freedom at Harvard. Not a university law but an unwritten custom prevented the Young Communist League from distributing its message from door to door. Any other group, whether left or right, harmless or vicious, would have met with the same refusal. But the mere fact that an "unwritten law" should crack down particularly on the more politically minded members of the university gives it an unsavory aura. No matter what the origin of this law, no matter what the original purpose, its present function is dangerous. It has almost become...
...mere technicality. If all "legal" student organizations are allowed to distribute pamphlets, the Young Communist League, by reason of its concealed membership, will be automatically exiled. But such suppression need not exist. The material, and not the "legality" of the organization, should be the criterion. Whenever a college group has something worthwhile to say, it should bring its pamphlet to a University committee aimed not at shielding undergraduate minds but at keeping advertising material from front door mats. Only then will a sincerely written Communist message receive as much freedom as the Lowell House Chronicle, and only then will rumor...
...five humid May days in 1928 a group of shirtsleeved men stayed in a smoke-fogged suite in Manhattan's Ritz-Carlton Hotel, bargaining, eating, occasionally sleeping. Clarence Dillon wanted to sell the automobile company bought four years before by Dillon, Read & Co. from the widows of Motormakers John and Horace Dodge. Walter P. Chrysler, as expert a machinist as ever stood at a lathe, as smart a trader as ever swapped a horse, wanted...
Such an issue, of course, has been furnished in Europe. Never more unanimous was any group of students on any single issue; we are frankly determined to have peace at any price. We refuse to fight another balance of power war. We intend to resist to the utmost any suggestions that American intervention is necessary to "save civilization" or even to "save democracy and freedom". The newly formed American Independence League promises to express this determination in a constructive and vigorous fashion...