Word: alarums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Alarum. In Brooklyn, three police cars rushed through the streets on a tip that a woman was "yelling for help," found a perspiring man changing an auto tire-with his voluble wife trumpeting advice...
Dictator? Labor's topmost bosses cried the alarum. Placid Bill Green roused himself: "Fascism may grip America unawares." P.A.C. Boss Sidney Hillman stirred on his sickbed: "The most extreme and autocratic controls over the liberties and democratic rights of American workers ever seriously proposed in the history of our nation." Phil Murray could see "destruction of the labor movement" as Harry Truman's sole aim. John Lewis, fresh from his handshaking with the President, was discreetly silent...