Word: protest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...order that true information on the situation at Charlestown on Thursday last, may be secured, the Committee formed to protest the brutality of the police, requests that all persons who were eyewitnesses bring any statements, photographs, etc. which they may have to any members of the committee, or deposit them with Raymond Dennett, Adams...
...announced its intention of staging a protest with several communist organization against Hitler. It was the purpose of the hastily-formed anti-NSL to break up the meeting. Had these two bodies ever come face to face, not only they, but the other demonstrators and possibly the marines might have met in an engagement which would have rapidly degenerated into la riot. Certainly there have been instances both in this country and abroad to show the dangers which are latent in a mob. To forestall this eventuality the police were instructed to prevent any gathering from taking place. So, whenever...
...further investigation shows that these methods were used to prevent the dangers of an unmanageable demonstration. Of course they were unfortunate, but a riot would have subjected the police to even more virulent criticism. Viewed in this light one finds less grounds for the Committee to protest against police methods at the meeting. They might well keep in mind that Harvard must assume its share of the blame for these occurrences. Only if the rumors of police brutality inside the station turn out to be true or if those arrested do not get a fair trial is there ground...
Statements from several professors, among them Arthur N. Holcombe '06, professor of Government; Zechariah Chafee, professor of Law, Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology; and Ralph Barton Perry, Chairman of the Department of Philosophy, rallied to the cause of the Committee formed to protest the police tactics during the demonstration in City Square last Thursday...
...committee are Thomas B. O'Connor '35, George B. Edwards 1G, Victor H. Kramer '35, O. F. Ingram '35, and Herman Walker 1G. Dennett announced that several members of the committee were planning to call on Commissioner 'Hultman today if an audience could be secured and lodge a formal protest...