Word: maying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This re-worked version passed the House on May 4 without a single dissent, but was defeated in the Senate 5 days later. One representative said that most of his colleagues opposed the bill, but that they were "afraid to voice opposition to it because they themselves might be open to accusations of sympathizing with Communism...
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...
...May 3, Provost Jacobs wrote to the chairman of the administration's Committee on Student Organizations, "The university student council has clearly adopted as its policy the avoidance of responsibility for decision as to speakers ... I hereby return to the Committee on Student Organizations the power to decide whether suggested speakers are to be permitted to speak on the university campus...
...three men were not reinsisted. On May 2, the A.V.C. chapter called a meeting "to work out united action to reinstate the three suspended students." Several clubs joined in a campaign for this purpose, and on May 12, they proclaimed, "All other conceivable measures of protest having failed, a class stoppage" should be held...
...University of Georgia, Athena Georgia, James Barfeet, assistant professor of Education, was dismissed on May 12. 1948. The week before, he had been selected as the Progressive Party candidate for governor. After his dismissal, Barfoot accepted the nomination...