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...issue yesterday reference is made to may "refusing permission," in 1939, "to the now defunct John Reed Society to sponsor a lecture by Earl Browder in New Lecture Hall." The decision in that case, confirmed by the Corporation, had nothing to do with Browder's opinions. It was based solely on the fact that he had just been indicted for a crime and that his trial was pending. The question was, in fact, one of propriety or "taste" in giving a man whose trial was pending a chance to use Harvard as a sounding board to plead his cause. Under...
...Earl hurried Dempster to his London flat, spent many a day pumping the naked truth out of him and clothing it in robes of Earlite...
Dempster was trying to raise capital to start a crocodile farm. He took Earl to the London zoo and showed off the crocs...
...same tone as the "Bender Rule." Only once in recent years has the College barred a speaker of unpopular views from University buildings. And the storm the incident provoked yielded a well-learned lesson for the College. The man about whom the controversy centered was the American Communist, Earl Browder...
Early in November of 1939, Jerome D. Greene, Secretary of the Corporation, touched off the issue by refusing permission to the now defunct John Reed Society to sponsor a lecture by Earl Browder in New Lecture Hall...