Word: ruthven
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blue and white-crossed blue pins. Each represented a U.S. television, FM, or educational radio station. A short, wiry young man looked at the map, remarked: "A lot has happened in the past five years, and a lot more will happen in the next five." The speaker was Charles Ruthven Denny Jr., 34, whom President Truman named last week as chairman of the seven-man Federal Communications Commission...
...from the elevator, and people constantly pop in to ask the way to the manager's office, the men's room, etc. Some get yanked right into the program. So do many night-shift workers who drop in for laughs in the early morning. President Alexander Grant Ruthven of the University of Michigan, a devoted listener, once asked the boys to find a horse which had strayed from his stable. They broadcast an appeal to the horse to go home because he was breaking the president's heart. Twenty minutes later a listener found the animal...
Failure of the University of Michigan to state the charges against a group of students dismissed last June or to grant the students the open hearing they have repeatedly requested was sharply condemned in a letter sent to President Alexander G. Ruthven yesterday by 250 educators, churchmen and writers...
...least 16 students will be unable to reenter Michigan University to complete their studies. All of them were recipients of the following short note this summer: "It is the decision of the authorities of the University of Michigan that you cannot be readmitted to the University. (signed) President Ruthven." Further interrogation brought these students, all extra-curricular leaders in good standing, the information that they were a "disturbing influence on the campus." The only specific charge made was that one girl had distributed leaflets for a trade union on campus...
...Michigan case must be won for democracy's side. It must be an example of the desire of American students for the retention of their fundamental right of free expression. We students of Harvard must rally to the support of our fellow Michigan students, writing to President Ruthven asking him to reopen the case and grant the students their hearing...