Word: speakers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
Fast was not the only speaker banned at C.C.N.Y. On December 9, Theobald said "no" to a speech by Arnold Johnson, legislative representative of the Communist Party, because Johnson's party appeared on Attorney-General Clark's list of subversive organizations. The Student-Faculty Committee on Student Organizations upheld the ban. It said Johnson's speech would be "detrimental to the college," though it stated that Johnson could speak to any one group in a closed meeting...
Dalton Trumbo and Adrian Scott, screen-writers who were then under indictment for contempt of Congress, were barred from an April 20, 1948 meeting. They were scheduled to talk on civil liberties. A meeting on civil rights, set for January 17, 1949, with Communist Party official Emanuel Blum as speaker, was also not allowed...
...another occasion last year the public Relations office scheduled an information broadcast, where an economics instructor was to speak for several minutes on the Taft-Hartley Act. It was reported that the Public Relations office asked the instructor to change his script because it was not objective enough. The speaker refused and so the speech was cancelled...
There was other good news. The elite of Kabuto Cho, Tokyo's Wall Street, met at the Tokyo stock exchange, wearing their best pin-striped trousers and their warmest smiles. There was some happy oratory. One speaker exclaimed: "The blossoms are opening;" the meeting's chairman called for a teuchi shiki (an old Japanese ceremony of congratulations). The assembled bankers and brokers solemnly rose and clapped their hands in unison, 13 times. Then they adjourned for a buffet lunch of roast beef, beer and strawberry shortcake...