Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Murray inherited him from John. In the law courts and at negotiations, Pressman gave sharp and valiant service. He established the principle of portal-to-portal pay. He helped save Harry Bridges from being deported. He wrote an analysis of the Taft-Hartley Act which President Truman unabashedly used as a source for many ideas in his veto message last summer...
...participating in any totalitarian movement which has as an objective . . . the changing by force or other unlawful means our duly constituted forms of national or state governments." As in the case of the Barnes Bill, this seems to be a superfluous piece of legislation since the Massachusetts Anti-Anarchy Act of 1919 already makes it a crime to advocate forcible overthrow of the Commonwealth while the Smith Act of 1940 provides ample teeth to deal with persons engaging in similar activity against the United States government. Certainly "credible evidence" should be sufficient for prosecution either under these acts, or under...
...fact that the New Student was singled out for Administrative disapproval can be taken only as an act of political repression," the protest declared...
Each of these aspects of the Barnes Bill has many implications. The vagueness of the "doctrine" phrase, for instance, could render the act unconstitutional, as the Supreme Court has overruled several bills because of their lack of definition. But notice in particular the ramifications of the section making the employer a potential lawbreaker. Not only will school and university administrations take care not to employ Communist Party members, but they would be afraid for their own hides to hire anyone liberal enough to be suspected of advocating communist doctrines. The tremendous restriction of this aspect of the bill on academic...
...clause concerning punishment for advocating overthrow of the government by force or violence, commendable as this sentiment may be, it is unnecessary to make it law, simply because a law--the anti-anarchy act of 1919--already exists on the books and covers precisely this classification. The Attorney-General, who has been provided by subsequent legislation with ample power to enforce the law, is therefore responsible if any persons advocating overthrow of the government by force are now reaming freely about the Commonwealth. It has been persistently removed, incidentally, that the Attorney-General is interested in becoming Governor...