Word: harassment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...emerges clear and bright the bottom of the affair. It is obvious that Professor Seavey's comparison of the ex-governor with Chicago's notorious Thompson was an analogy unintended to be malicious. There few men in the teaching profession so tactless and unaware of their position as to harass a living public name openly and directly, especially when the son of that name sits in their classroom...
...foreign policy unplumbed since the resignation as Foreign Secretary of Sir Samuel Hoare (TIME, Dec. 30). Most effective spokesmen for His Majesty's Loyal Opposition are has-been Prime Minister David Lloyd George, 73, and has-been Labor Party Leader George Lansbury, 77. Last week they tried to harass His Majesty's Government into fulfilling the pre-election pledge given by Prime' Minister Stanley Baldwin actively to support "collective security" and the League of Nations in measures for Peace...
...Civil suits will be launched against one or more important holding companies as test cases. "It is . . . not the purpose of the Government to harass the utility industry with a needless multiplicity of suits," Attorney General Cummings instructed his local prosecutors. "Equally, however, there is no public interest to be served by vexing the Government with a multiplicity of injunction suits which . . . might result in the presentation of the issue of constitutionality on the basis of an inadequate record or a record not fairly typical of the situation covered...
...begins discharging firearms, that he is Public Enemy No. A1. She is accused of aiding his escape, bullied into a false confession, sent to prison. To trap Baxter the G-men rig up an elaborate escape for Miss Sidney, shadow her every move. The infatuated public enemy manages to harass her while eluding his pursuers and robbing a football stadium, almost ruins her romance with Melvyn Douglas before he is shot. For cinemaddicts who are not ruffled by uneven pacing and exaggerated detail, Mary Burns, Fugitive has enough taut sequences to be entertaining...
...conspirator. Slowly she came to understand that a deep sense of futility was destroying the organization, embittering her lover's life. Despite all the self-sacrifice and passion of individual members, V. M. R. 0. was degenerating into a tool of the great powers, who employed it to harass rivals, reduced it to the level of hired gunmen. When