Word: action
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...defendants had taught their followers to prepare for the coming of some crisis-a depression, perhaps a war with Russia. At that point the revolutionists would spring into action. Through strikes and sabotage, they would paralyze the industrial machine, bring about the violent overthrow of the Government, establish the dictatorship of the proletariat. Orders to follow such a course had come directly from Moscow, which maintained rigid discipline over its U.S. followers. The methods of the U.S.C.P. embraced lying, false swearing, secrecy (all characteristics of a conspiracy), and the whipping of aggrieved minorities into active resentment...
...charge you that it is not the abstract doctrine of overthrowing or destroying organized government by unlawful means which is denounced by this law, but the teaching and advocacy of action for the accomplishment of that purpose, by language reasonably and ordinarily calculated to incite persons to such action...
...Maintenance of Labor's social services, and "a house, and a good house, for every family . . . How to achieve it? Set the private builder free . . ." ¶ Abolition of the House of Lords.* ¶ "Joint action" and "firm friendship" with the U.S., but "it must be friendship of equal partners...
...school of historians, he argues, insists on playing down the moral issue of slavery as of little or no importance. Some go so far as to declare that the whole struggle was a tragic blunder that could have been avoided by more discussion, less action...
Captain Herb Carey has also seen limited action because of an ankle injury, but he is expected to be running in full force today. Carey, incidentally, plays both ways, and has been doing so for four years with considerable effect...