Word: disruptions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grew up, Bob Jr. was sickly. Illness hurt his career at the University of Wisconsin (where he displayed a wistful hankering for journalism) but nothing could disrupt his political education. Old Fighting Bob went to the Senate in 1906, and in Washington "Young Bob" learned politics with his table manners. By the time his father died, in 1925, and Young Bob succeeded to his Senate seat, he knew all the rules. Then at 30, he was the third youngest Senator in U.S. history.* He affected pearl grey spats, plastered-down hair and cake-eater sideburns. He was cherubic in countenance...
...labor. He probed the bloody Memorial Day riot at Chicago's Republic Steel plant (10 dead), and laid the blame on Chicago's goonlike police force. He reported that some 2,500 companies (a "bluebook of American industry") had sent hireling spies into unions to infiltrate and disrupt organized labor. And, inadvertently, he provided Communist pamphleteers with source material which they still drag out to this...
...Hicks testified about his own disappointing romance with Communism. Said Hicks: "... I would go along with Senator Taft in feeling that I would not want to make an absolute rule . . . There are situations in which it would be better to let a Communist keep his [teaching] job than to disrupt the whole fabric of academic freedom." But if a Communist brought his politics into the classroom, that was something else again. The trouble with all these investigations, Hicks continued, is that the emphasis always falls on "how much" the Communists have infiltrated American colleges. It might be better, said...
...Disrupt Social Structure...
...bailiwick of South Wales, called a mass demonstration against the government and appealed to Bevan to take part. Bevan saw his chance to ingratiate himself with conservatives in his own party. "I refuse," said he, "to partake in a campaign that is Communist-inspired and that threatens to disrupt the unity of the trade union movement...