Word: vigilantes
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Within the past year, FCC monitors have caught over 300 unlicensed stations. Although in the course of tracking down renegade operators FCC's monitor men meet espionage, sabotage and other subversive carryings-on, the only law the monitors can enforce (with the cooperation of local police) is the Communications...
Franklin D. Roosevelt had made no postelection appeal for unity in his support, perhaps reserving his views for a major occasion. In a telegram to Also-Ran Roger W. Babson, he had welcomed "cooperation" of all citizens. Also-Ran Wendell Willkie now urged unity, but also alert and vigilant opposition...
"In Massachusetts three parties, excluded by a technicality, were restored to the ballot only after the vigilant work of the local branch of the Civil Liberties Union. The tactics used in New York against the signers of the Petition of the Communist Party clearly indicate the worst kind of intimidation...
Endorsing the new program, Commissioner Downey said today, "The communities in this section of the country the taxpayers, town officials, and the school executives,--greatly need the help which such a plan will afford at the present time. During this period when educational needs and tax budgets are being thoroughly...
This week the Metro Group (Robbing, Feist, Miller publishing houses), controlled by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and turning out a major part of Hollywood's popular music, was reported ready to sell out to B. M. I. for $3,750,000. M. G. M. has long borne a grudge against...