Word: disruption
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scofflaw, may not be at heart a law breaker: it may be that he is a person who will not give his support to a law which makes honest men criminals and which tends to disrupt national peace. It is not that I support those who scoff at prohibition: it is, rather, that I have no sympathy for those reforming zealots who merely antagonize men of a wider outlook and deeper perspective by looking, as Kipling puts it, "too good" and talking "too wise". CARL RIMSEY HEUSSY...
...classes of this second division have as a common function, "a search for truth without fear or favor". The members of both must be willing to stand on their feet and say what they think. Under our present civilization, Mr. Nearing continued, an ever increasing specialization is tending to disrupt all cooperation between different men and classes, and hence, now more than ever before, we are in need of a set of men, philosophers, teachers as well as propagandists, to teach people the truth and to "tell them the names of things". "If these men do not come from...
...annual speakfest of the American Federation of Labor proceeds another source of discord is becoming evident which is likely to disrupt the ranks of labor. That is the candidacy of John L. Lewis, of the United Mine Workers, for the office of President of the A. F. of L. This move apparently marks the solidification of opposition to Samuel Gompers, who for thirty-nine years has held the office now coveted by Mr. Lewis. Labor's "grand old man", however, has declined to give up without a struggle. His supporters have resurrected the well-worn charge of a "slush fund...
...American Union Against Militarism" suggests that these provisions might be used against a strike. It is now widely recognized that certain strikes do constitute national emergencies. In the coal strike of last winter a small percentage of the population threatened to disrupt the life of the entire country. If such action does not constitute civil war, it is certainly as dangerous as any open, armed conflict might be. These provisions might be used against a nation-wide strike in an essential industry. They should be used in such an emergency...