Word: lynch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cambridge city councillors yesterday defeated an order directing the Chief of Police to investigate the International Students' Association for possible Communist membership. The measure, presented by Councillor John D. Lynch, was voted down, eight...
...issue was opened several weeks ago when the ISA petitioned the City Council for a change of zoning at 33 Garden Street. The Committee on Ordinances had previously approved the measure. Last week, however, following the group's petition, Lynch presented an order asking for the investigation...
...Lynch says he does not wish to attack Harvard on Harvard's qualities; rather he has a strong hatred of what he believes to be Communist's infiltration in educational institutions...
...Lynch readily admits that he has nothing against the University. However, he says he is worried about the "parlor pink professors" who he claims are corrupting "the minds of students with red propaganda." But he thinks the student body is composed of "fine boys"; Lynch was very pleased, he said, with the students' reception of his speech during his debate one week ago with Arthur M. Schlesinger '38, associate professor of History, on "How to combat Communism in the United States...
...Lynch has been in Cambridge politics for 30 years, but throughout these years he has had and desires to have little to do with the University. He says, "Whenever I go from North Cambridge to City Hall, I'm always in a hurry to get back . . . the air is better up here...