Word: disruptions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...justifies his ejection of the student president of the Harvard Socialist League from the Browder protest rally with the categorical assertion that Mr. Pitts attempted to "disrupt" the meeting. He further attempts to discredit Pitts by indulging in talk about the "destructive activities of those who call themselves Trotskyites...
...Pitts, on the other hand, who claimed a desire to participate in the protest, and whose attempt to disrupt the meeting also called forth Thursday's letter, the John Reed Society apparently did not see fit to invite him to speak. Whether this was an oversight or an intentional omission I myself cannot say. Even if it was the latter, their action is certainly understandable. Liberals and progressives have long known form bitter experience the destructive activities of those who call themselves Trotskyites. These activities have been felt by liberal organizations everywhere. Had he been seriously interested in the purpose...
...regard to your news story of Saturday, March 11, "Trotskyites Disrupt Communist Meeting," I should like to offer a few corrections in the interest of more exact if less sensational journalism. Your story tells how "Continual remarks such as 'It's a lie' punctuated the remarks of the speaker." Now being responsible for that discourteous remark I should like to explain how and why it was made...
...report on what he and Harry Bennett, personnel director of Ford Motor Co., were up to together in recent meetings (TIME. Nov. 23, et ante). The Mortimer-Frankensteen faction this week asked a circuit court in Detroit to restrain Homer Martin from consummating an "illegal conspiracy" with Ford "to disrupt the union and establish a company-dominated fake. . . .:' Messrs. Frankensteen and Mortimer suspected that a deal was in the making whereby canny Mr. Bennett would deliver 100,000-odd Ford workers (and union votes) to Mr. Martin and put Ford Motor Co. on good terms with the National Labor...
...extremists were not to be stopped. Up in the hills of rock-walled County Donegal, in the purple bogs of County Mayo and windswept County Clare they began to drill and equip a new army, reported to be 15,000 strong. If the bombings continue, they are certain to disrupt the policy of friendly understanding which Premier de Valera has achieved with Britain. But "Dev" would like to see a united Ireland, and he knows Britain has her hands full elsewhere. Last week he took no occasion to sound off one way or another on the bombings...