Word: harassments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Almost Martyr. The Word sent by Moscow in 1930 to the Communist Party, U.S.A. was: "Seize the streets." It meant: riot, raise hell, harass the law. If heads were cracked, so much the better; cracked heads made martyrs. In the first year of the great depression, California's population was resentful and disorderly. Thousands were out of work. The arm of the law was muscular and impatient...
...There is a fair number of gags, and almost all are funny, but there lies between them a dull story with dull people doing dull things. The greater part of the whole story unwinds in a single hotel room, where a bunch of unfunny, characterless politicians smoke cigars and harass the Senator. William Powell plays the title role, a sketchy part that is never developed into a sympathetic character, and one always feels the presence of the clever scriptwriter just behind Powell in the smoky hotel room...
...been posted in key Canadian centers under orders from Moscow to "confuse and discourage" incoming D.P.s. They work in teams, he said. Some Communists meet incoming D.P.s on the piers at eastern ports. Others contact them on their trains as they head for their new homes. The Communists constantly harass the immigrants, said Bishop Ladyka, and try to bribe them to return to Europe. They tell the immigrants "that they have been 'exported' here for slave labor." They offer to "produce the 'ransom' to 'rescue' the D.P.s if they will join the ranks...
...Proposal. In a final maneuver to harass Republicans, Georgia's Russell slyly proposed that the president pro tempore of the Senate, Arthur Vandenberg, be placed in front of Speaker Martin...
...edge Adams, Winthrop, Dunster, Kirkland, Eliot, and Lowell in that order. Joe Gordon of Adams was high man with a 72, followed by Dick Drury of Leverett (78), and Tom Dolan of Winthrop (80). Weather clear and track fast was the word from Lexington, but high winds prevailed to harass the golfers...