Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...announcement the Corporation reaffirmed its policy "of permitting all views to be presented at meetings of students held in Harvard buildings," and went on to say that the John Reed Society could have "another member of the Communist Party speak as soon as they desired...
...from the car came to the platform and indicated that he wanted to speak to me. 'Mr. Rockefeller is in that car,' he whispered, 'he wants to speak to the miners.' It was difficult for me to believe that anyone could so misunderstand a situation. 'For God's sake tell Mr. Rockefeller to leave here at once,' I replied, 'he may be killed, if these men find out he is here.' " Mr. Rockefeller left...
Said Monologuist Cornelia Otis Skinner, interviewed in New Orleans: "Hollywood is cheap, it's tawdry, it's wicked. The people in power are so horrible that my friends, men and women who speak my language, are miserably unhappy there...
Consequently, it must be reiterated that the question of free speech is not involved if facts are taken at their face value. Browder was granted permission to speak at Harvard on a certain date. Meanwhile, he was indicted on criminal charges of passport invasion; so his speaking permission was revoked. From this it should be clear that Browder, for the purposes of the case, had a dual personality: that of the Communist spokesman and that of the passport violator. He was excluded from a Harvard assembly in his second capacity only. If Mr. Greene was sincere--and the burden...
More than 200 students have already signed its petition to the Corporation asking that Earl Browder be allowed to speak in a University hall, the John Reed Society's Executive Committee announced last night...