Word: subverts
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...repeal the poll tax, but to raise their standard of living and to educate them. This is a slow task, but a far wiser and safer method than giving a vote immediately to ten million people who in their ignorance are more apt to use it to subvert than to uphold constitutional government. Very sincerely yours, Laurence Davis...
...throw our southern neighbors into the arms of our potential enemies. they want an industrial mobilization, if it is necessary, that will not destroy hard-won labor standards under the false pretence of expediency. Above all, they do not want, as the Senior Orator said yesterday, to see "Persecution . . Subvert Americanism in the name of Americanism...
...been said that some of you are Communists. ... As Americans you have a right, a legal and constitutional right, to call yourselves Communists . . . but . . . you have no American right, by act or deed of any kind, to subvert the Government and the Constitution of this nation...
...violence or to seize their employer's plant. ... To justify such conduct [as NLRB had justified it] because of the existence of a labor dispute or of an unfair labor practice would be to put a premium on resort to force instead of legal remedies and to subvert the principles of law and order which lie at the foundations of society. As [Fansteel's] unfair labor practices afforded no excuse for the seizure and holding of its buildings, [Fansteel] had its normal rights of redress. Those rights, in their most obvious scope, included the right to discharge...
...Communist Party of the U. S. A. upholds the democratic achievements of the American people. It opposes with all its power any clique, group, circle, faction, or party, which conspires or acts to subvert, undermine, weaken or overthrow, any or all institutions of American democracy...