Word: free
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ford Hall Forum, that Sunday evening haven of Boston free speech and Harvard liberals, is threatened with closing. The Baptist Social Union, its main support, is reported to have voted against its continuance. Financial reasons are advanced for the move; but David K. Niles, associate director of the Forum, sees behind this action the shadow of the Blue Menace, which for a decade has been growing more and more potent in this state. Born of the anti-Red agitation immediately after the war, this undemocratic reaction found agents for its platform in a few super-patriotic organizations, and a means...
Miss Thompson, probing deeper, declares: "If [a woman] is about to have a child and does not want it she can get rid of it legally, and, if the State considers her reason adequate, in a free clinic...
...taken for granted that he is the father and he is held, equally with the mother, responsible for the child's support. . . . The original Communist theory that the State should be responsible for children has been abandoned. It is still held [only] by such champions of free love as Alexandra Kollontai . . . now [Soviet] Minister to Norway (TIME...
...Fixit (Eldon F. Roark) on the Memphis Press-Scimitar gave a pint of his blood to a woman who almost died in childbirth, during the Mississippi flood. He brought in two husky firemen to do likewise. ... In one month he obtained jobs for 300 people, later helped start a free municipal employment bureau. . He found homes for stray dogs; reported street cars that had flat wheels...
...marries a Christian woman, has a child by her. But he is troubled about his race, hurt by the slurs of Nordics; so he finally leaves his family to go on a Jewish mission in the Balkans. The thesis is that a Jew cannot lead a full and intellectually free life on earth when he does as Gentiles do. Many critics have passionately praised this book, but an epic is seldom written when an author is straining so mightily to create...