Word: action
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Schwartz sketched the background of the Chinese Communist movement and paralleled the political techniques of Communist leader Mao Tze Tung to those of Lenin. Communism's chief attraction to the Chinese, he said, is its action and melodramatic methods as compared to the inefficient bumbling of Chiang Kai Shek's Kuomintang government...
...busses with the men, enduring their hardships, and bolstering them. His spirit was probably the principal thing which prevented the tour from collapse. After the completion of the trip, he travelled a considerable distance so he could testify for his musicians in New York, when they brought legal action against the American manager of the tour...
...Bales' espionage system is a device to be known as an "interaction recorder." The machine has a metal frame with 14 holes in it, one for each of 14 different kinds of "action...
Then to make their analysis, the sociologists look and see which of the 14 categories each action belongs to. Some of the 14 categories are: squelching an imminent misunderstanding, asking for facts, and sticking to the business of the meeting...
After an investigations last spring the Student Council called upon the University to look into the question again, with a view to reviving the field. The Council's action was followed last fall by a report of the Graduate Council...