Word: freedom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...virtually retired. While McClure's degenerated into a snappy-stories magazine-and folded for good in 1933-McClure lived on at Manhattan's elegant, decaying Murray Hill Hotel (TIME, May 5, 1947). He spent long hours at the Union League Club writing a history of freedom and other forgotten books, and was almost forgotten himself. Last week, at 92, S. S. McClure died...
...expel "all or any persons found to be disloyal to this nation." It was not exactly a law, explained House Speaker Durwood Manford, "but stronger than a suggestion." Cried Texas University Footballer "Peppy" Blount, a member of the house and one of the chief backers of the bill: "Academic freedom, huh? The only isms we want in Texas are Texasism and Americanism...
...ready to name them last week. Apparently he did not speak for B'nai B'rith's Anti-Defamation League, whose national director, Benjamin R. Epstein, declared: "We believe Mr. Goldstein's threatened resort to litigation . . . is unwise. A decent respect for academic freedom means that the police power of the state is resorted to only in those cases where the material is intended to undermine the democratic fabric and even then, only in extreme cases...
Calling on the rest of mankind "not to despair," he said that "we must make sure that the cause of Freedom is defended by all the resources of combined forethought and superior science," and pointed to the fact that "the doctrine of self-determinism was not the remedy for Europe, which needs above all things, unity and larger groupings...
...Zazes based their arguments on the right of the union to freedom of speech and cited anti-injunction laws to point up their appeal for a reversal of a lower-court decision restraining the union from picketing. Lockwood and Dauber, for the company, claimed that the union was trying to force their clients out of business and was therefore not entitled to the protection of the laws in its picketing activities...