Word: civil
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...campaign against this law might have changed defeat into victory. That the university can advance arguments to justify its decision to play a passive role in the struggle for repeal this year is undoubtedly true. For there is some question as to whether this oath does really endanger civil liberties. And, even if the law is a menace to intellectual freedom, it may not be wise for Harvard to stir once more local antagonism by advocating its repeal...
Brown said a "duplicate has been pinch-hitting satisfactorily," and continued, "but please convey to the Harvard CRIMSON O.G.P.U., alias Cambridge W.C.T.U., our desire to have original returned for framing. Undecided whether to report case to La Follette Civil Liberties Committee or Dies Committee for Un-American Activities, but suspect that suspicious color of your sheet will imperil you most with latter group...
...addition, the drive has been backed by the State Department through Secretary Cordell Hull; by Dr. Leo S. Rowe, secretary-general of the Pan-American Union in Washington; by Dr. Grant Mason, Head of the Civil Aeronautics Authority; and by prominent industrial and academic leaders in South America...
...passage of the social insurance laws through the Massachusetts legislature while his enemies branded him a dangerous radical. Although his dislike of the "red menace" doctrine during the war impaired his chances of appointment to the Supreme Court, he nevertheless courageously regarded the drive as a menace to civil liberties. And once on the high bench, there never was any question of his compromising with what was hostile to his liberal tenets. Rarely did Louis Brandeis agree with his conservative colleagues; because of his celebrated minority opinions, vritten in league with his great contemporary Justice Holmes, the phrase "Holmes...
Long before the Spanish civil war, in 1923, Bates went from England to Spain, settled among fishermen in a coastal village. The people, whom he loved, called him El Fantastico because of his incredible energy: he slept only four hours a night, and so that his sleep might be deep, went for a long swim or wrestled in the afternoon. He organized the fishermen into unions...