Word: fryer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Editor W. Linton Andrews of the Tory Yorkshire Post learned that one of his staff members, 20-year-old Legman Peter Fryer, had carried a Red banner in a May Day demonstration. Andrews asked Communist Fryer for an explanation. He got an apology, and a promise from Fryer that he would never wear his Red sympathies in public again. But Reporter Fryer refused to renounce his Communism. The issue was plain; and neither the editor nor his employee tried to duck it. Wrote Editor Andrews...
...Peter Fryer consulted it for a week, then replied: "I have given my word that ... I shall not engage in public Communist activities. . . . But I am not able to go further because . . . my beliefs are so much a part of my life that it would not be possible...
Even a year ago there would have been angry cries all over England that Reporter Fryer's personal rights had been violated. There were no such cries last week...
...Cranch Eliot, Carmine Mario Fasano, George Harry Foote, Irwin Bertram Green, Crosby Hitchcock, Thomas Joseph Hughes, Jr., Robert Leon Jenkins, Robert Henry Lautz, David Delamater Mackintosh, George Seward Might, Arnold Whitcomb Morse, James Roland Patterson, Jr., James Stenius Roberts, Ralph Dudley Sanderson, Ralph Henry Vogel, Richard Saltonstall West, William Fryer Wicks, Theodore Henry Woggon, James Joshua Zimmerman...
Secessionist Ross urged fellow twin citizens and Northwestern Ontario to quit Ontario, to join neighboring Manitoba, whose capital, Winnipeg, is only 400 miles away. Acting Mayor J. E. Fryer thought it a good idea, cried: "The greatest frontier in Canada is being governed by people who don't know and don't care." In Port Arthur, another stouthearted Westerner, Mayor Arthur Cox, wanted Manitoba to seize all of Ontario as far east as Sudbury, 700 miles away...