Word: defenders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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James and John McNamara were ar rested. Labor organized in their defense, $250,000 was raised, charges of frame-up roared through innumerable demonstrations, Clarence Darrow was rushed to Los Angeles to defend them, Muckraker Lincoln Steffens busied himself trying to work out a compromise. Suddenly, on Dec. 1, 1911, James McNamara confessed. It was the greatest moral shock in U. S. labor history. A thin-faced, impassioned man, with intense blue eyes and a Theodore Roosevelt mustache, McNamara told reporters: "They say I will swing for this, but if I swing it will be for a principle...
...Wild's courses, 11, 11a, 12, and 14e, it may be said with some uniformity that some like Wild, and some don't. But no one denies that he is stimulating. Each philosopher he teaches he feels he must defend, and his dogmatism if nothing else stirs people up. Also, he is an authority on Berkeley...
Nevertheless, Nevada's Pat McCarran, author of the old CAA act, trumpeted on the floor of the Senate: "This legalized murder should stop." He sat tousle-headed and glaring while bumbling Alben Barkley tried to defend Franklin Roosevelt's reorganization of CAA which abolished the crack, independent Air Safety Board. A Senate subcommittee will investigate the Atlanta crash. And when Pat McCarran's bill to set aside Franklin Roosevelt's reorganization comes to hearing, there will be plenty of fireworks...
...this is intentionally vague, Marxist Harold Laski is specific enough. In the best-written piece in this collection, Laski explains labor's tactic so that even the dullest capitalist may read while he runs. Laski reminds British labor of Lenin's reasons for helping Kerensky defend Petrograd against General Kornilov. "It would be wrong," wrote Lenin, as quoted admiringly by Laski, "to think that we have departed from the task of the conquest of power by the proletariat. Not at all. We have approached much nearer to it; only not directly, but obliquely. And at this very minute...
Norman Thomas, four times defeated on the Socialist presidential ticket, will defend his isolationist stand against W. Barton Leach '21, professor of Law, in a debate in New Lecture Hall, next Monday AT 8 O'clock...