Word: civilization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long as I have the power to represent the people of this great city the Russian Reds will never come in and destroy industry." Singled out for special attention as "Russian Reds" were C. I. 0. leaders from John L. Lewis down; Roger Baldwin, head of the American Civil Liberties Union; its counsels, Arthur Garfield Hays and Lawyer Morris Ernst...
...life and have never seen the day when I couldn't say anything I had on my mind." But next day a New York Herald Tribune reporter searched the city without avail for a man in the street who would talk for quotation about the state of civil liberties. The usual answer: "You know what might happen to a guy if he talks out of turn in this town...
...against Mayor Hague's officials by C. I. 0. organizers and sympathizers, the C. I. O. places most faith in one filed last week by C. I. O. Counsel Dean Spaulding Frazer of the Newark University Law School in Federal Court on the ground that the plaintiffs -the Civil Liberties Union, the Steel Workers Organizing Committee and several C. I. O. unions-were "without adequate remedy in the local court of law." In substance, they asked for a perpetual injunction to restrain Mayor Hague from ignoring the Bill of Rights. At the same time Lawyer Ernst interested the Post...
Sponsoring the meeting are progressive forces such as the State Federation of Labor, the Massachusetts Council of Teachers' Unions, the League of Women Voters, and the Civil Liberties organization. Norman B. Nash, Robert Paino Professor of Christian Social Ethics at the Episcopal Theological School has lent his support to the movement...
Liberal and labor groups will also consider plans for introducing in the State Congress measures to raise the compulsory school age to 16 years, gain the right of women to serve on juries. They have declared themselves against biennial sessions of the Legislature and in favor of the Civil Rights Bill...