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...Puritans gave rise to the constitutional right not to be a witness against oneself. Many editors went to prison during the period of the Alien and Sedition's Laws, thereby establishing more firmly the freedom of the press. The abolitionists who stood up to statute, decision and administrative and mob action are responsible in great part for the ultimate end of slavery. In the present instance, the academic community has a special duty to resist because it knows the effects of loyalty purges in the field of education's, in this country as well as elsewhere. These who resist congressional...
Even his appearance contributes to the growing Beer legend. A mustache of heroic proportions soften a pleasantly booming voice. Clothed either in a brown, chalk-striped, business suit, or a black pin-striped number, many think that he looks like an intellectual mob-chief of the twenties...
Rhee insisted that the President should be chosen by vote of the people. The Assembly said no. Rhee declared martial law, had his cops arrest twelve Assemblymen, charged them with being Communist plotters, and sent a mob of his supporters to storm the Assembly chamber. Aspirant Chang took refuge in a U.S. Army hospital. Rhee threatened to pull out a couple of ROK divisions from the line to back up his police, hesitated only when his good friend, Eighth Army Commander Van Fleet, flew to Pusan and told the President that this would mean an open rupture with...
...Silver City, Clinton Jencks barred the press from his moviemaking and blandly explained that the film would merely try to win friends by tracing the union's history and presenting its problems. True, he admitted, two carloads of Negroes had been imported to play in mob sequences, and there would be strike scenes. But, Jencks said, the picture is mostly fiction and would even have some love interest. "If Hollywood tries to blacklist some of its finest workers," he added, "that is Hollywood's loss, but if these workers help us ... that is our gain . . . The union...
...statements about Theodore Morrison, the author. Mr. Morrison, it is the reviewer's opinion, "considers a student body as a necessary but unpleasant prop in a college"; he "implies that students in a classroom are not primarily concerned with learning; instead they face their instructors maliciously, much like a mob that needs skillful handling"; in short, "he does not understand his students...