Word: laski
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Capitalist democracy as we know it is incompatible with the so called planned economy, in the opinion of Professor Harold J. Laski, of the London School of Economics...
...looked for the first sproutings of the tree of fascism in such typical bits of Americana as the teachers' oath bill or the rantings of the Liberty Leaguers will be amazed to know that the revolution has occurred. No barricades have been flung up across Beacon Street, nor have Laski's books been burned on Soldiers Field, but the yoke has been placed upon our necks nevertheless. And, bearing out the theory that the dictator comes from the most unexpected place, the heel that has stamped out our cherished liberties is none other than that of the Student Council...
...labelled conspicuously "Meddler" and "Busybody". Page 5 of the same issue prints the headline "Attack on constitution taught Harvard students" There follows a garbled but strong criticism, of Harold Brogan's "Government of the People", the text now in use in Government 1: of Professor Holcombe; and of Professor Laski, the author of the foreword. All are accused of spreading subversive and communistic doctrines among the students...
Outgrowth of the Peace Forum hold under the auspices of Zechariah Chaffee, Jr., professor of law, and Harold Laski at the School last year, the Law School Union held an organization meeting at Phillips Brooks House yesterday afternoon...
...Government, can become overnight a totalitarian Dictator, gagging and blackjacking one-fifth of the human race at his pleasure. But what wing-collared, high-principled Director of the Bank of Scotland ever gagged or blackjacked anybody? To this every Communist and most Socialists would reply with Professor Laski that bank directors are precisely the people who by invisible but effective means have not only been gagging and binding but bleeding India's masses to the verge of destitution, Indian bankers in this respect being the most rapacious of them...