Word: exoduses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many Jews were moving out of their modern bondage toward the ancient promised Land. By thousands they fled from eastern Europe, where three-fourths of the Continent's 1,300,000 surviving Jews (not including those of Russia) have found no victory in Hitler's defeat.* Their exodus was illegal, clandestine, and humanitarian. A Polish Jewess explained why: "You know what Europe is to me? It's a cemetery. When I walk into a store and see soap on sale, I remember that this may be the body of my sister...
After the Great Exodus of the spring of '43 (when the future was viewed in terms of khaki and navy blue and what-the-hell), it got so quiet in the, little redbrick building on the one-way cowpath, 14 Plympton Street, you could hear a split-infinitive drop. Most of the Crimeds had gone off to the wars, leaving behind them something they'd started as a weekly to serve naval and military personnel, something they now hoped whole be able to publish the news of the whole University twice a week; something called the Harvard Service News...
Promised Land. These miserable people, and most of the remaining 1,500,000 Jews in Europe, want to go to Palestine. A troubled Anglo-American committee. sitting in the ornate old State Department hearing room at Washington, is now hearing the case for such an exodus...
...nation's wartime civilian chiefs have begun their exodus from Washington. Last week Assistant Secretary of War John Jay McCloy, policy handler for the War Department and its liaison man with the State Department, stepped out. A few days later the resignation of his colleague, Assistant Secretary for Air Robert Abercrombie Lovett, landed on the White House desk...
From Washington came the grim prediction of housing experts that the worst is yet to come. With demobilization rapidly increasing, the exodus of unemployed war workers from crowded industrial centers had not yet begun. The situation, said the NHA, will grow steadily worse until midwinter; the end of the ban on private building will have little effect before...