Word: speech
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...really sisters under the skin. Squabbles like the Browder affair may come a dime a dozen, but they will never really loosen John's and the Bulldog's tenacious grip upon true intellectual freedom. Etiquette may change, but Harvard and Yale will always mind their manners when free speech is vitally concerned...
...under indictment for a criminal offense against the laws of the United States," in a statement released on Wednesday night. Yesterday Dartmouth sided with the banners, when its Central Lecture Committee refused permission to a group of petitioning student organizations to use a lecture room for the Browder speech...
Many people said it wasn't liberal any more: some man came one day and wanted to make a speech, but "The University" wouldn't let him because it said he always lied to the government; but people said the real reason was because he had a black beard, so "The University" wasn't liberal. But the next day "The University" announced that because everyone wanted to cat their turkey on a different day, and because people should do what they wanted to do, it would serve turkey every day for a month and a day. And this was very...
Speaking on the subject "Should We Ignore Racial Differences" at the Town Hall Meeting of the Air Thursday night, Professor Earnest A. Hooton of Harvard University chloroformed his listeners with a demagogic speech smacking strongly of fascist racial theories. . . ." The Daily Worker...
...Olum's letter to the Crimson has convinced me that any respect which he professes for the principles of free speech has been overshadowed by the delusion that he is Harvard's sole standard-bearer of American civil liberties...