Word: unionism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Treasury, appeared for him and heard an assortment of minor patriots condemn his client as a Red, a Jew, an alien. One condemner was rich, blonde Mrs. Elizabeth (The Red Network) Dilling of Chicago, who based her Frankfurterphobia largely on his long membership in the American Civil Liberties Union (which once defended her right to attack the New Deal on the radio...
When it came to questioning, the examiners were no match for their witness. Nevada's tawny old Pat McCarran was confounded by the Professor's Socratic questions. Asked by Senator Borah how the Civil Liberties Union stood on Communism, the Professor neatly replied, "So far as I know it has no attitude except to carry out its function of seeing that Communists get their Constitutional rights, along with Henry Ford, the Nazis and the Klan." Climax came when, pointing his finger at McCarran, Lawyer Frankfurter said slowly and succinctly...
...Christ every day." Before the committee he looked like a man who, his mind on highest things, has suffered and forgiven much. He told how, having been asked by Flint authorities to back up the court order, "I did not ignore that writ. ... On the contrary, I warned the union representatives that I would enforce it." He merely delayed enforcement over the week-end (the writ was issued on a Friday) because he believed a negotiated settlement was imminent. National Guardsmen stood by, and sure enough a settlement was reached without bloodshed...
...rehire the strikers, the Bijurs last month refused to pay rent until served with a dispossess notice. Mrs. Bijur trudged up & down four flights of stairs rather than use the elevator and condone the presence of strike breakers, some of whom have joined an A. F. of L. union. She said "the scabs" had called her bad names, she had even been told she might have her "puss mashed in with a sledge hammer." Recently she paid hospital bills for three pregnant wives of strikers. In a little over two months the Bijurs have spent over $3,000 supporting...
...seemed to be even better trained than the dog. Assuming a stand with her hands on her hips she equally matched the pointer immobility. The tension became intense as the two vied for honors to determine who could last the longest. Finally a humane student, probably a Student Union member, fearing both would drop from exhaustion, let out a high pitched shriek which called the squirrel's attention to the matter. The rodent scampered up the nearest tree, the hypnotic attraction was gone, and dog, woman, and students disappeared about their respective business...