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...seem to fear that such action by university professors may be excessively "difficult" and "dangerous." I can assure you from my own experience that such fears are exaggerated. I refer you to the case of the Charlestown rioters, so-called, recently before the courts of this state. Commenting on that case in an editorial which you published on May 18th last, you said: "Any nation espousing a belief in freedom of speech will not submit to a subjugation of it under the tattoo of horses' hoofs. The brutality and officiousness demonstrated yesterday are to be deplored...
...that time. The kind of action which I think university professors may properly take under such circumstances is illustrated by the "Introduction" signed by Professors Hocking and Perry of the Department of Philosophy, and by myself, to the "Official Report of the Committee of Investigation of Police Tactics in Charlestown on May 17, 1934," published in June by the Harvard Liberal Club. I commend to you the reading of that report in full, together with the accompanying documents. Arthur N. Holcombe...
...company unionism." Caught flatfooted, NRAdministrator Johnson's Johnsonese for once failed him. Merely snorting "Ridiculous!" to the Darrow charges, he set Counsel Donald Richberg to writing the organization's counterbarrage. Meantime, an eloquent defense came from a high and unexpected quarter. To an NRA birthday celebration at Charlestown, W. Va., President Roosevelt, who usually lets the Blue Eagle fight its own battles, sent this message: "People who cannot see the forests for the trees make much of controversy in various groups which meet in NRA-employers, consumers, employes. NRA was deliberately conceived in controversy. . . . Before the people...
...Cukor knows whereof he speaks, but to which Boston accent does he refor? Is it the long "a" of Beacon Street, the short "a" of Mattapan, the nasal "a" of Chelsea, or the various assorted inflections that are found from Newton to South Boston and from Milton to the Charlestown Navy Yard...
...Committee, formed to protest the tactics of the police in the demonstration at Charlestown, has been engaged in arranging a formal protest to state officials but results of their work so far have not as yet been revealed. The Committee was impressed with the sale of the pamphlet which appeared a week ago and which has sold rapidly since then...