Word: p
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...distressing to a proud pedestrian to find TIME on p. 2, Oct. 9 issue, including Daniel Morgan in its list of "Brainy Cavalrymen...
Pale, reedy Alex Rose, A. L. P. executive secretary, snapped that all who voted against the resolution thereby voted themselves out of the Party. The count: 605 for, 94 against. Each of the 94 was booed as he rose to vote. The purge...
What happens to the American Labor Party is of national interest, for A. L. P. will have something to say about how the New York vote goes in 1940. Old-line Democrats and Republicans do not forget that the American Labor Party in 1937 gave New York City's Mayor LaGuardia his winning majority, narrowly saved Democratic Governor Herbert Lehman from defeat last year by Tom Dewey...
...recent years, New York Communists have swarmed into A. L. P. Last week they were told to buzz out. A big party meeting was called to blast Stalinism out of A. L, P. ranks. Speaker after speaker denounced the Soviet. Then the A. L. P. men melted together all the high-Fahrenheit words they could find, forged a white-hot resolution that seared the "red and brown dictatorships" for "their shameless, hypocritical acts," their "brazen conduct," finally branded their U. S. apologists as "antiDemocratic, anti-humanitarian, antilabor, and the blind servants of the Russian international policy...
Phase II of the purge came next day. The executive committee demanded that all A. L. P. nominees for city and county posts in the November 7 election pledge themselves to uphold the anti-Communist resolution. One leader hesitated: chubby Michael Joseph Quill, president of C. I. O.'s Transport Workers, (trolleys, taxis, busses, subways). Mike Quill is politically potent, a generally stanch backer of Mayor Fiorello Henry LaGuardia, and one of five A. L. P. members of New York's City Council. With many Communists in his hive, he has followed the party beeline, was suspected...