Word: means
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Medina: "If [the defendants] merely got together ... to urge . . . people by peaceful means to change the laws so as to bring about a socialistic society I would say, yes, that was something it was clearly their right to do ... You are knocking down a man of straw here . . . It did not seem to me that all these witnesses were talking about peaceful things." Isserman contended that a "clear and present danger" from their activities would have to be shown. Did he mean, asked Judge Medina, that the Government had to prove a clear and present danger of the immediate...
...Invite Dispute. It did so in a peculiar fashion. The majority did not pass on the validity of the Chicago ordinance; it objected instead to the way the trial judge had construed the ordinance in his instructions to the jury. He had defined "breach of the peace" to mean misbehavior which "stirs the public to anger, invites dispute, brings about a condition of unrest, or creates disturbances...
President Strand in many of his public statements since the dismissals has taken membership in the Progressive party to mean compliance with the party line. In reply to a letter he has written, "I haven't received many letters like years from Oregon. Yours needs more like some that have come to me from Brooklyn. I think you have been reading too much communist propaganda that has appeared under the guise of the Progressive Party." In another letter Strand put "Communist organization apologists for the Soviet Union, officials of the Progressive Party, and many other fellow travellers" in the same...
Comparative scores, which mean a good deal more in lacrosse than most sports, give Williams an edge. The varsity squeaked by Springfield, 7 to 6, for instance, while Williams...
...Briton Hadden who was voted the "most likely to succeed" by the same Yale class that voted Henry Luce the "most brilliant," and who proceeded, with Luce, to create 'Time' before he was twenty-four? Busch tolls you that he was an "editorial prodigy." By this, Busch seems to mean that from the first months of his life Hadden was possessed by the desire, and the ability, to publish his ideas and to get them "off the page and into the reader's mind." Hadden was also highly competitive and vastly ambitious: he planned to make a million dollars...