Word: passport
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Without stepping off the twelve acres of the Center a visitor could go to dentist, doctor, chiropodist, osteopath, could have a massage, exercise in a gymnasium, study languages, book passage to Tahiti, get a passport, could dine, drink and dance. Only comfort and convenience not to be found there was a place to sleep...
...claim of the Committee that the University did not have a legitimate reason to withdraw its permission for the Browder lecture because he was indicted for using a passport under a false name. "No one has suggested that there is any moral turpitude involved in the case," the Committee said...
...Harvard on "The World Crisis," because it felt that the students and faculty of the University wanted to hear all sides of this important topic. Mr. Browder is the most authoritative representative of a legitimate point of view on this issue. When Mr. Browder was indicted on a technical passport charge, Mr. Greene suggested that the meeting be abandoned, "lest questions of propriety be raised." The Administration has every right to make such suggestions. However, the John Reed Society has been informed that the indictment, and it is only an indictment, imposes no civil disability on Mr. Browder...
Obviously--as Mr. Greene admits--there is no legalism preventing an appearance by Browder. Less obviously, good taste does not prevent it, since Browder would appear in his capacity as a Communist spokesman rather than in his role as a passport violator. Granted that he has broken some highly technical regulations laid down by the United States government, his integrity or capability as leader of the Communist party are not impugned by this fact. He remains the most articulate exponent of one view on War and Neutrality, and as such, he should be heard by Harvard students...
Thomas Dorgan, member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, and vociferous critic of Communists, said last night that he supported the University's action and promised he would get "brother Browder a good passport to take him to the University of Moscow where he belongs...