Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Featuring a "Turkey drive" and a speech by Earl Browder, Lampy will celebrate Thanksgiving today in protest against Governor Saltonstall's refusal to fall into line with President Roosevelt on the turkey day issue...
...question of a November twenty-third Thanksgiving, the unanimity of the College is striking and especially symbolized by the historic rapprochement between the Crimson and the Lampoon. Little room for disagreement can now remain. Considering the issue more vital than the John Reed Society protest, the magazine editors have invited Mr. Browder to attack this curtailment of religious freedom from the steps of their Mount Auburn Street building. Perhaps it can be considered fortunate that infringement of speech and religion have occurred together. In one telling blow, delivered to a crowd that should block every street from Plympton to Dunster...
...also led to fear that the whole protest meeting was a publicity stunt, in view of the anonymous offer of a hall for Browder to the John Reed Society. Their refusal to consider the University's side of the question, their railroading of their resolution, their complete denial of the floor to the opposition made the whole meeting a farce and a burlesque of the democracy for which they claim to fight. Signed, George F. Snell '41, A. R. Cowper, Dwight D. Taylor, Jr. '41, John Van Landingham '41, Alfred E. Gras '41, Dana Stockbridge, Keith R. Symon, Francis George...
...next debate, scheduled for next Tuesday, will inaugurate the first public discussion of the tenure program of the University. Up till now all discussion and debate on this subject has been carried on by the Faculty or by various protest groups...
...deny free speech, it has, nevertheless, that very function, and in the present time when there is a general hounding of unorthodox, political groups, anything which might signify a restriction of free speech, a surrender to Mr. Dies' blackmailing, is to be carefully avoided. Mr. Greene's legitimate protest to the "New York Times" on its handling of the YCL's leaflet story seemed to indicate that he was not forgetting this important principle. The more painfully surprised are we when we witness his latest move on the same subject...