Word: civil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coolidge appeared with witnesses from the Massachusetts Civil Liberties Union, representatives of political organizations, and private citizens, testifying before the Constitutional Law Committee of the General Court at the State House...
Herbert A. Philbrick of the F.B.I., a bombshell government witness in New York's Communist conspiracy trial, today accused the wife of a Harvard graduate student of preaching civil war in the United States if this country became embroiled in war with Russia...
...pointed out," he testified, "that in such an incident it would be the duty of the Communist Party to fight against such an unjust war, and that in such a case the imperialist war should be converted into a civil war." Mrs. Fletcher also quoted sections from her text calling for the defeat "of one's own government in an imperialist war," Philbrick said...
Arthur W. Purcell '50 and President Melvin L. Zurier '50 argued the affirmative of the subject: Resolved, That a comprehensive civil rights program should be adopted. They won by an audience decision...
...dazzling career. Certainly it was hard to believe with the muckrakers that men of wealth were guided only by an insane desire to accumulate millions. Instead, Allen shows the financial giant with a supreme desire for order. The cut-throat competition of rampant industrialism which he saw after the Civil War was to him wasteful and harmful to the economy. His theory was justified in the 1890's when the vast confusion of railroad systems brought most of them to bankruptcy. Here, Morgan had his chance to bring supreme order to an industry, an order which he thought was essential...