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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...show that it still had some muscle left, the Socialist Force Ouvrère, France's second largest labor federation, called a one-day general strike, set it for a Friday. The Communist-run federation of labor (CGT) gleefully announced that it was going to strike, too, trumpeted that France would never forget its black Friday. As it turned out, strikebound Friday was at worst only a dull grey. According to the Ministry of Interior, the strike" was 100% effective in the northern and eastern coal mines, in the ports, in some metal industries. But a majority of France...
...Will the Roman Church continue tacitly accepting the role assigned to it as the largest of the Christian sects and thus, while encouraging all to enter 'the one ark of salvation,' remain, defending its traditional privileges and furthering its corporate interests, engrossed in its own affairs? Or will it ... condescending to discuss ways and means with the heretics and schismatics, strive (assuming their cooperation) to bring into being a revivified Christendom...
Last week at its convention in Sacramento, the National Grange, second largest of the three main U.S. farm groups,*condemned the Brannan plan and went beyond; it also questioned many of the chief points in the whole support program. It called the Brannan program "an internal cancer that would ultimately destroy our free enterprise system...
...Brannan plan," said the Grange, "has totally undesirable political implications . . . That party which would promise farmers the largest bonus out of the Treasury would garner many votes not obtainable on ... an honest, sound platform. It would then become a race to see which party would promise most...
Marble-fronted, white and gleaming, the world's largest Woolworth store opened on Houston's bustling Main Street. It cost $8,000,000, is completely air-conditioned, seats 150 at its lunch counter. On opening day, 40,000 Houstonians gawked at the big "History of Texas" mural between the front doors, rode up & down the escalators, kept cash registers ringing. Although most middle-aged people still think of Woolworth's as a "Five and Dime," the Houston store last week showed how great the change has been behind the old familiar red front. There were canaries...