Word: expression
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first days of war. It met them with incredulity and outrage, with a quick, harsh, nationwide outburst that swelled like the catalogue of some profane Whitman. It met them with a deepening sense of gravity and a slow, mounting anger. But there were still no words to express emotions pent up in silent people listening to radios, reading papers, taking trains. But the U.S. knew that its first words were not enough...
...were convicted even before the declaration or war, for they high crime of possessing literature that can be found in almost every school and library throughout the country. These 18 were tried under the Smith act, which slipped through Congress a few months ago, making it illegal to express an opinion concerning the propriety of the overthrow of the government by force and violence. The only evidence which the government produced was the Marxist and Trotskyist literature which was found in the offices of the defendants, members of the Minneapolis Teamsters; Union and the Minneapolis Socialist Workers' Party. The government...
...have been instructed, by several Negro alumni of the University who are resident in the Greater Boston area, to express our great satisfaction with your editorial entitled "The Dark Side of Defense," which appeared in your issue of 27 November. It was a sterling example of forthright courageous journalism...
...Should like to express my disagreement with the stand taken by Professor Mathieasen and his colleagues, and the Harvard Liberal Union regarding in particular the so- called "Minneapolis sedition trials" and in general the property of the Smith...
...statement was issued by the ten Archbishops and Bishops on the administrative board of the National Catholic Welfare Conference, who were "deputed in the annual meeting of the Bishops of the U.S. to express their mind on the crisis of Christianity"-a crisis they called "the most serious since the church came out of the catacombs...