Word: speech
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry Truman used some dynamite last week to blast loose at least a part of his civil rights program. At his orders, Solicitor General Philip Perlman, in a speech in New York City, touched off the explosion. Henceforth, said Perlman, the Federal Housing Administration will not insure any loans made on private dwellings which are going to be restricted on the basis of race, creed or color. The policy may affect one-third of all new housing...
...grow. After five months as head of Rich-land's frustrated, ineffectual city council, McDonald discovered that there was no government in Richland except the Atomic Energy Commission, and its contractor,, the General Electric Co. Late one night, Mayor McDonald labored over the manuscript of his first public speech, delivered it next day in a cold drizzle to 45 citizens and the American Legion band. Said he: "Our local government here is not a democracy. It could be called a benevolent dictatorship...
...tutees are high school students. PBH this fall has quite a few Displaced Persons receiving instruction in English. Oettinger also said that he has an unfilled request on file from a group of mothers in East Boston who would like a Harvard tutor to conduct a speech improvement course for mothers...
...Long, chairman of the John Reed Club, sponsor of the speech, said last night that Starobin will probably try to contrast the "re-nazification of West Germany with the government and reconstruction of East Germany...
This maelstrom of hysteria has never caught up the Dean's Office, and, indeed, Dean Bender's defense of the John Reed Club's right to sponsor a speech at Harvard by Gerhart Eisler was a strong statement of the case for individual liberties and free discussion. But the cold war has not entirely passed the College by, and it has, in fact, helped to shape the limitations on undergraduate activities...