Word: expression
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...whom they were aimed. But there is no justification for saying that organized efforts for peace are out of place in America, or in this University. It is still legal to oppose the national defense program, the ROTC, the CAA, or pro-Allied sentiment. It is still legal to express such opposition in any way compatible with public order. To call these expressions un-American may also still be legal, but is in our opinion incorrect...
...They knew that the President's press conference next day would be crowded, grave, unrevealing -and it was, with about 250 correspondents filing to the White House through a bright spring morning, to note in their eleven-minute interview that Franklin Roosevelt seemed imperturbable, and to hear him express his sympathy for Queen Wilhelmina's defiance of the invaders...
...inaugural address before the five-year old A. F. of L. affiliate Matthiessen quoted the following passage from the Union constitution: "In affiliating with the organized labor movement we express our desire to contribute to and receive support from this powerful progressive force; to reduce the segregation of teachers from the rest of the workers . . . and increase thereby the sense of common purpose among them; and in particular to cooperate in this field in the advancement of education and resistance to all reaction...
Grey-haired Martin D. Wilson, a conductor on the Burlington, off duty, was motoring home alone with two geese, two turkeys, two hams last December. At a Richland, Neb. grade crossing he was surprised by a Union Pacific express. Pulling diagonally across the tracks, Conductor Wilson caught his left front wheel between rails, stalled, leaped out, fled. He was safe when the train, doing 70, smacked the auto and left the rails, derailing eight cars, tearing up 300 feet of track, killing the engineer and fireman...
...speech has been invoked, not by the New York Board of Higher Education as their legal defense, but by many thousands of people throughout the United States who have perceived its obvious relation to the controversy, which is this: the American constitution guarantees to everyone the right to express his opinions whatever these may be. This right is naturally limited by any contract into which the individual may enter which requires him to spend part of his time in occupations other than expressing his opinions. Thus, if a salesman, a postman, a tailor and a teacher of mathematics all happen...