Word: disavower
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...Wellner, business agent of the Brooklyn painters; Sam Kaplan, on the executive board of Local No. 306, New York Motion-Picture Machine Operators; John J. Dempsey, international treasurer of the ironworkers. Though a little brown around the edges, their careers have not been blighted. President Green has shouted "We disavow racketeering, gangsterism, and disregard for law most emphatically and without reservation"-but they still have their jobs...
...convention proceeded to seat new locals (whose members must disavow Communism before admission) in place of the ousted ones. Number of members in the new locals: 1,500. Ousted: 8,000. The Federation also re-elected President Counts and its anti-Stalinist executive council. Said Dr. Counts: "The revocation of the charters ... has cleared the way for positive and constructive work...
...beyond the Constitution." He said he would go to Congress as a guardian who has invested the money of a ward might go to him when he came of age and say: "I did this for your good; I pretend no right to bind you; you may disavow me, and I must get out of the scrape as I can; I thought it my duty to risk myself...
Illinois' Bosses Kelly & Nash filed Franklin D. Roosevelt as a candidate in the April 9 primary. He has until Feb. 24 to disavow the filing. Thomas E. Dewey entered Illinois' Republican primary, where a sweeping victory would give any candidate top billing. Bob Taft was undecided. Arthur Vandenberg declined...
With the royal visit of Their Britannic Majesties, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, only three months off, loyal Canadians could not let such treasonous talk go unnoticed. Authors, educators, businessmen hastened to disavow their mayor. French-Canadian members of the Dominion Parliament at Ottawa publicly disagreed with him. A raucous debate was expected. Minister of Labor William Tremblay of Quebec declared: "Mayor Houde missed his shot with the Communists and is now trying his luck with the Fascists, poor fellow." Noteworthy it was, however, that the Quebec Government of Premier Maurice Duplessis preferred not to enter the argument...