Word: disbandment
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...would get the typical pep talk with which ADAers exhort each other to do battle with the "forces of reaction." Instead they got a sharp jolt: Democrat Furcolo, who is expected to run for the U.S. Senate next year, as much as told them they should pack up and disband...
After taking this for a while, Furcolo decided he had to squirm out from under this criticism. So in the keynote speech at its annual convention banquet, Furcolo told the ADA to disband. The public thought them pink, he said, and this weakened not only their work but the chances of any Democratic candidate they supported. Things, he confided, would be better for liberals and Democrats if the ADA faded away. And, leaving the convention to choke on its dessert, Furcolo went out to renew his campaign as "the man who repudiated...
...Young Democratic Club and the Liberal Union last night sharply criticized State Treasurer Foster Furcolo for his suggestion Saturday that the Americans for Democratic Action disband because it is "undermining" the Democratic Party...
...enterprise. In the mail came an unsolicited letter from former Imperial Wizard Thomas L. Hamilton, who was sent to jail, along with 15 other Klansmen, as a result of the weeklies' crusade. Said Hamilton's letter, which Cole put on Page One: "All my friends everywhere should disband the Ku Klux Klan ... I am through with [it] and believe all my former associates will best serve themselves and society as a whole by taking a similar stand...
Idler, Radcliffe's only dramatic society, folded yesterday. Members of the club voted unanimously to disband after discussions failed to provide any means for bringing the group...