Word: winging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both the crude and subtle methods of attack have been used to keep speakers off university platforms. The crude approach keeps Communists out by labeling them as radical and therefore undesirable. This device is also used to handle all shades of liberals and left-wing people. The subtle approach is employed by universities to bar men under indictment or on trial from speaking--in spite of-the fact that men in these categories are still innocent in the eyes of the law. Furthermore, men actually convicted in the civil rights cases mentioned in the survey should not be considered criminal...
Another left-wing student organization lost official college standing a little more than a week ago when Ohio State University withdrew recognition from the campus Students for Wallace. The controversy arose over the appearance of an unapproved speaker at a meeting of the Wallaceites...
There are many instances throughout the country where left-wing student organizations have been banned. The American Youth for Democracy is the most frequently mentioned of these groups. The following statement was sent to the CRIMSON by the administration of Wayne University in reply to an inquiry on the occasion in April, 1947, when the A.Y.D. was barred at Wayne...
Favorite Morsels. Just about everyone was on his side. These included the President's own Council of Economic Advisers and industry's middle-of-the-road Committee for Economic Development, who were agreed that it was no time to raise taxes. The Democrats' own conservative wing, led by Virginia's penny-pinching Senator Harry Byrd, welcomed the warning of New Dealer Douglas...
...Army & Navy, Johnson decided, had pussyfooted; he ordered the admirals and generals to give him "additional clarifying information" about their programs. The Air Force came off better. As a first step, the Air Force said that within ten days it would begin disbanding its all-Negro 332 Fighter Wing at Lockbourne Air Force Base in Ohio. By the end of the year its 2,000 men would be sprinkled through the Air Force; other Negro units in the Air Force, but not all of them, would be broken up in the same...