Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this point even the parents of Act 888 could not defend it. As public protest and pressure mounted, even some of the men who had sponsored or voted for the bill began to attack it. By this time it was clear that if an effort were made to enforce the Act, Alabama would have no book supply...
...action drew a sharp protest from the local chapter of the American Association of University Professors, which called upon the University to disregard "legally unsubstantiated political criticism... and consider only the individual's competent in his chosen field...
Another foray into national politics came as a climax to his long-standing protest against the Sacco-Vanzetti decision. On the 20th anniversary of the execution, in 1947, Schlesinger presented a plaque honoring the pair to the Governor of Massachusetts, requesting that they be honored in the same manner as Roger Williams and Ann Hutchins. The Governor refused to accept...
Four of the seventeen institutions to reply thus far to the 1954 contract offer have refused to sign, presumably in protest against the security provisions. But the government is not attempting to dictate educational policy to the universities, according to Hartness. "We simply cannot have Communists or subversives in our educational programs and we cannot pay such people because of an act of Congress," Hartness said...
...this point the Faculty banded together in protest. The two instructors were both to the far left in their political leanings, so the cry of academic freedom was heard, though the matter was simply a budgetary one. Relations between Conant and some professors became increasingly strained, and resulted in an unheard-of request by the teaching staff...