Word: case
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Growing fear in labor circles that desperate Communists might provoke disorder, try to create a new Centralia* case, was heightened by a riot in Aberdeen, Wash. In this lumber centre with a big Finnish colony, the Finnish Brotherhood scheduled an anniversary meeting. Grays Harbor Communists then scheduled a "Victory Dance" for the same date at the old Red Hall in B Street, two blocks from the Finn Hall. Twenty-five Communists appeared for the dance, huddled in the hall while a crowd of some 400 battered down the door, pulled siding off the walls, tore out the plumbing, smashed...
Indicted, these groups (representing 12,000 farmers from four States, 5,000 milkwagon drivers), fought the case before District Judge Charles E. Woodward in Chicago. On July 28 of this year Judge Woodward quashed the case. He saw the situation thus: that the purpose of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act was to protect individualism and unrestrained competition; that in the 50-odd years since the Act's passage, a contrary philosophy had grown up-through the Clayton, Capper-Volstead and Marketing Agreement Acts-which held that such associations as the Chicago milk groups were not illegal...
...where student activities were suppressed by academic authorities without very convincing reason. But on the other hand this does not prove that a prairie fire of academic reaction is roaring down upon American colleges. Least of all down upon Harvard, where authorities made a silly mistake in the Browder case and otherwise have given every indication of wishing to toe the straight liberal line in affairs academic...
...double sentiment which has moved Phi Beta Kappa to take this action is greatly to be praised. But the concrete turn which this sentiment has taken is rather questionable. Until a case of real suppression arises at Harvard, the Committee for Academic Freedom would serve no function but to cast aspersion upon Harvard's present-day tolerance in the eyes of the nation's liberal press. This is not a very worthwhile stake on which to gamble the position of aloof grandeur which PBK now occupies in the eyes of Harvard students...
Judge Arthur P. Stone '92 dismissed Fleischman's case, which had been postponed until now, with the statement: "this ordinance of the City of Cambridge, being void and unconstitutional on its face, is therefore unenforceable as to this defendant...