Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the Harvard University Corporation rescinded its permission for a student meeting at which Earl Browder was to speak. It did so with the explanation that his indictment for a passport violation had made him unfit for a Harvard platform. Three days later a mob of legionnaires and assorted thugs descended on a Detroit meeting-hall where Communist leader William Z. Foster was delivering an address. They picketed boisterously, and when the meeting ended and the crowd began to disperse, they went into action. They created a tumultuous riot, inflicted injuries on nearly fifty people who had attended...
Sponsored by the Harvard Graduate Student Union, Orville S. Poland, chairman of the Civil Liberties Committee of Massachusetts, will speak at 8 o'clock this evening in Emerson A. His subject will be "The Dies Committee Invades Cambridge...
...Olum as chairman been acquainted with events leading up to the rally, he would have been aware that Mr. Pitts wished to speak in favor of the John Reed Society's stand against the University. Mr. Pitts in a Crimson letter expressed his complete sympathy with the Browder protest...
Furthermore, Mr. Pitts approached Mr. Olum before the meeting with a civil request to be allowed to speak from a printed paper which he offered to show. He was flatly refused...
Pitts was suppressed because, as a leader of a "Trotskyite organization", it was felt in poor taste to let him speak...