Word: unionizing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...comrades, said Dr. Grebanier, met weekly in each other's homes,* discussed Marxism, united-front politics. Teachers Union affairs, how to vote in faculty elections. "It would be wrong to say," he explained, "that there was any deep-dyed plotting in these discussions." They also got reading assignments. Required reading: The Daily Worker, Life of Karl Marx, Earl Browder's Communism in the U. S. For dues ($25 a month), party literature, "Red Front" funds and the like, Dr. Grebanier shelled out $500 a year, more than 10% of his salary. On one occasion...
...student council. Day of the election, leftists staged a peace demonstration. At an appointed hour, demonstrators suddenly blew whistles in college corridors, rushed into classrooms shouting: "Don't scab on peace." Promptly suspended were the demonstration's sponsors-the Peace Continuance Committee and American Student Union...
...week's end, not only dismissal but jail faced Dr. Selsam and 24 other members of the Teachers Union. Because they had refused, on advice of counsel, to testify at a private hearing before Senator Coudert, the legislative committee decided to cite them for contempt...
...result of the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, in which Sherman lost 2,500 men, a Union Army surgeon who lost a leg there named his next son Kenesaw Mountain Landis. "Thus," observed Biographer Henry F. Pringle, "was the blunder of General Sherman immortalized." Last week frosty old Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis saw a wish fulfilled. Baseballmen meeting in Atlanta fed him fried chicken, then stuffed him in a car, drove to Marietta, Ga., where the City Council presented him with "a little farm where I can look out and see Kennesaw Mountain...
...patient's insides yielded a number of colored balloons, a string of sausages, and finally a Punch & Judy show. As a washerwoman by a stream, he was interrupted, for no ascertainable reason, by the passing - of an invisible fox hunt, but returned to the amorous contemplation of a union suit. Time & again he was a citizen of a never-never land as fantastical as that inhabited by Krazy...