Word: statement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Forty-six members of the University's Faculty have signed a statement urging defeat of the Mundt-Nixon anti-Communist Bill, which passed the House of Representatives by a 319 to 58 vote Wednesday. The bill now goes to the Senate, where it is expected to face heavy sledding...
...their statement, the 46 declared: "The Mundt-Nixon Bill appears to be aimed at restricting the activities of Communists. Its vague and loose phraseology, however, indicates that it threatens the expression of liberal and progressive thought. Its enactment would strike a serious blow at our cherished rights of free expression. We deplore this attempt to restrict American freedoms and urge Congress to defeat the Mundt-Nixon Bill...
...statement distributed by the National Council Against Conscription, the college presidents jointly declared that the armed forces have not yet exhausted means of procuring men under the voluntary system...
...quite natural that he should cite one or two unusual cases that have come up before, in which cheating caused no little difficulty to the testing bureau, the faculty and the students themselves. The alleged assumption and assertion of Mr. Leonard that students will cheat was in reality a statement of undeniable fact: students have cheated before. And Mr. Leonard's instructions to the proctors were most explicit. Proctors are not to accuse or even suspect any student of dishonorable practices. In the last of instructions distributed to the proctors at the same meeting, Article 29 reads: "Tell Mr. Leonard...
...statement which they signed demanded that the film be withdrawn as "a violation of the United Nations declaration against war propaganda and as a grave threat to our won security...