Word: abolitionism
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First, so far as our national welfare and safety are involved, I am convinced that the actions of the committees are both futile and self-defeating. They are, also, tragically destructive of our national morale at home, and of the esteem and confidence of our friends abroad. They are, in...
Second, the investigations under com- pulsion, in so far as they inquire into political beliefs and associations, contravene the First and Fifth Amendments, as well as the intent of the Constitution as a whole. As one who has pledged, and who gives unqualified loyalty to that Constitution. I must, therefore...
3. We Americans, I am sure, are facing a bitter crisis. If we are to preserve, or to restore, the integrity of free and just institutions, we must recognize that these congressional committees, in the political field, are practically identical, in purpose and method, with the Ecclesiastical Courts which, in...
The Press went alone until November, 1933, when ill health forced Murdock's retirement. David Pottinger again took over as acting director until January, 1936, when Dumas Malone was called in to take over, and once again Pottinger accepted the position of associate director. This situation laster until, after repeated...
But Methodism, which has had far more of an influence on British socialist policies than Marxism ever had, is hard put to stir up the old fervor in these days of the welfare state. Methodism's great 19th century battles on behalf of the over worked, the overcrowded and...