Word: actions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Plan S. Last winter, Luigi Gedda called on Catholic Action's comitati civici (citizens' committees) for a major effort. He named it Plan S (for syndicalism). He wanted to build up the Free Federation of Italian Labor, to rival the Red-run Italian Confederation of Labor (C.G.I.L.) through which the Communists have kept an iron grip on four million of Italy's workers. Gedda's goal was to enlist two million members for the Free Federation...
...Mother-in-Law, Too. Catholic Action reaches into every town, every slum, every factory and every village. Its agents are a strangely assorted phalanx-schoolteachers and schoolchildren, lawyers and factory workers, nuns and union leaders. At Catholic Action headquarters, pink-cheeked girl secretaries race through the long, whitewashed corridors, barely dodging pale, serious priests. They all take their orders from Catholic Action executives...
When the Communists set up low-cost lunch counters in factories, Catholic Action did the same-and tried to serve better food. When Communist women's organizations sent poor children to the country, Catholic Action went to work until its own kids-to-the-country program by far outdid the Reds'. Last year Catholic Action helped send over a million needy youngsters to summer camps...
When Communists organize rallies, Catholic Action organizes bigger ones. At a recent demonstration in Rome, Catholic Action provided the loudspeakers, the spectators' platforms, the slogans, the music, the buses, boats and trains that carried out-of-towners to the city. It even organized the housewives to pack box lunches and send their husbands to the meeting. It was typical of Catholic Action's zealous exuberance that brown-robed Franciscan monks climbed on lamp posts and snapped pictures of the rally. Catholic Action speakers frequently engage Communist leaders in public debates. One of the most tireless debaters...
...heart researches to the New York Heart Association. The Chief, thinking it would please the doctor, ordered the New York Journal-American to play up the Prinzmetal movie. It was a good medical story. For the first time in history, completely exposed hearts had been photographed in action by high-speed color cameras and the heart action reproduced in slow motion. The pictures indicated that the traditional theory of the heart disease called auricular fibrillation was wrong...