Word: laski
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...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...
...Laski, prominent author and a member of Britain's Labor Party, pointed out that in a capitalistic democracy "the economic power is concentrated, while the political control is widely extended. In times of economic contraction, the relationship between these two ruling groups cannot be maintained and one must suppress the other...
...conclusion, Laski exhorted America "to save herself by her own energy so that she may save Europe by her example...