Word: suppress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Osmond K. Fraenkel '08, vice-president of the National Lawyers Guild, delivered his scheduled lecture on "Searches and Seizure" to a capacity audience of Law students in Langdell Hall yesterday. Fraenkel said, after the lecture, that he "was glad" efforts to suppress his talk had not succeeded, because he had "enjoyed himself very much...
Because the University has so often refused to censure or suppress unpopular political groups at the urging of legislators, alumni, or midwestern newspaper, it is easy to accept Dean Griswold's statement as a natural occurrence. It might be a repetition of what Grenville Clark said two years ago concerning the free expression of the Harvard faculty, or Dean Bender's statement at the time Gerhart Eisler spoke in the Yard...
...question when free speech goes beyond proper limitations is an extraordinarily difficult one to answer. You would have us act to suppress the local organization, by refusing to allow it to use Law School rooms for its speakers, Dean Griswold and, as I read your letter, by dismissing its members from the School...
...Suppressing an organization is a very serious step to take. The local activities of this group of students do not seem to warrant such drastic action. The report of the Committee on Un-American Activities raise questions to which we have been giving serious consideration here. But we do not feel that we should suppress this local group because that Committee, without notice or hearing, has issued a report attacking the national organization with which the student group is affiliated. The United States Attorney General, with the resources of the Federal Bureau of Investigation at his disposal, has not seen...
...that the town must clean up its own mess if it wants to avoid interference from Washington and points north. The "outsider" who is killed by the mob is a crusading newsman who works for a paper no farther away than a large Southern city. Though they want to suppress the scandal, the town's respectable citizens are opposed to the Klan...