Word: tactics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...anti-Communist tactic, known in some quarters as the Turnipseed gambit. In their unemployment demonstrations in 1931, Baltimore Communists, looking for trouble, regularly refused to get parade permits. Baltimore police, not looking for trouble, developed the expedient of issuing a permit to an aged and cooperative Negro, George Alexander Turnipseed by name, who thereupon was rushed to the head of the parade, waving a red flag and protected on either side by Baltimore's finest, who found it better to lead a parade than to break...
...Cocos yelled: "Bismarck! Tyrant! Dictator! Boche!" They set out to block passage of the law by every parliamentary tactic they could think of. One hundred and twenty Communists made individual speeches. They proposed 250 amendments, each of which had to be voted down by the non-Communist majority. This wrangling went on all night and far into Sunday-for 36 solid hours...
...fiscal reforms might help a little but they certainly had no political zing. The only other idea was the reimposition of rationing and price control, which Harry Truman recently described as manifestations of a police state. But in their extremity that was exactly what Democratic politicos were suggesting. The tactic was politically sound: put the measure up to the 80th Congress and let the G.O.P. take the blame if prices kept on spiraling. The Democrats knew that Republicans would not vote to reimpose controls...
Frederic D. Houghtcling '50, HLU president, haled last night's victory as a return "to the original principles of the HLU," which was founded in 1941 by men "tired of Communist Party tactic in the American Student Union." He pointed to "Capturing: of the HLU in the spring of 1946 by the local American Youth for Democracy chapter and the subsequent reversal of control last Fall. In the spring of 1947 repeated attempts to bring about affiliation with SDA were defeated...
...Dodgers do it? Certainly without elegance. They were held together with baling wire, audacity, speed, and the uncanny strategy of Manager Burt Shotton. His tactic was unvarying: somehow to get through six or seven innings without getting too far behind, and then send for reliable old Relief Pitcher Hugh Casey...