Word: smith
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...group is defending the use of bully boy tactics because the tactics are used in a "good cause". I infer that if the same tactics were used by Smith's hoodlums to break up a Communist meeting, that would be a "bad thing." As the W's and du B point out, "the demonstration was incredibly well-organized" and "is it a denial of free speech for the audience to be louder than the man addressing it?" This makes beauty of organization and violence basic criteria in matters of discussion. It puts all opinion not backed by muscles as hard...
...Smith is a vender of snake oil, and what he says stinks. I say the same thing of the refuse I read in the Daily Worker. I do not howl for the suppression of the Worker, and neither does the CRIMSON. But Communists howl long and loud about people like Smith, and when the remaining rather few middle class libertarians ask for legal treatment of Smith, they are, inevitably called fascists and Germany is darkly referred to. But I saw Life's photographs showing Communists breaking up a meeting in Hungary, and recall Trotsky's death in Mexico. And here...
...this was a Communist led affair. I will not believe the men who wrote such a sentence as "If Communists were among the demonstrators, good for them," did not know the organizing group was Communist. Their accusing the CRIMSON of spreading "the untruth that resistance to Smith was . . . primarily Communist" is at best disingenuous. The thing was led by Harry A. Mendelsohn and his AYD friends. Mendelsohn may not be a member of the party, but in two years acquaintance with him I've never seen him disagree with the party or fail to support its local front groups...
...dates from New York to California. It looked like a good bet: the first pro competition between the two women who had ruled U.S. amateur tennis for six years. But Pauline and Sarah decided to give the customers something extra-a comedy act. When they played at schools (Barnard, Smith, Duke, etc.) Sarah, the straight man, appeared on court looking for Pauline, who then charged out in a man's size 44 trunks (she takes a woman's size 12), a sweater dyed a "nauseating orange," only one shoe, and a raincap flopping on her red hair...
Papa conceded that the Taft-Hartley Act would force him to leave the union's life-&-death powers out of future contracts. But he did not seem concerned. Kansas' rawboned Representative Wint Smith, who had heard back home that city folk were smart people, summed up the committee's opinion of New York's food merchants. "They talk about hicks," he said. "This seems to be a fertile field...