Word: marzani
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marzani, a former OSS and State Department agent who chose the targets for Doolittle's Tokyo raid, has been found guilty of making false statements on government applications...
...Carl Marzani and Professor Lyman R. Bradley of N.Y.U. are the other two speakers scheduled for the meeting which will be chaired by F. O. Matthiessen, professor of History and Literature...
...Marzani, a former O.S.S. and State Department employee, was dismissed for disloyalty, and for having falsified government applications...
Johnson found the door shut at New York's City College, Eisler at the universities of Michigan and Wisconsin (Marzani was also banned at Wisconsin). Howard Fast tried to speak on four campuses (Columbia, Brooklyn, City College and Hunter College) before a fifth, New York University...
Most officials who banned the speeches were unwilling to say in one-syllable words that Communists as such were unwelcome. Eisler, Marzani and Fast were refused ostensibly because they had been convicted of perjury or contempt. Said an editorial in Campus, student newspaper at City College: "[The ban] insults the student body by casting doubt on its ability to evaluate, analyze and form decisions...