Word: launching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recall Patel's organizational masterpiece, the Bardoli no-tax campaign of 1928. Despite the fact that crops had been bad for several years in the Bardoli district, a 25% tax increase was ordered by the Government assessors. This was precisely the opportunity Gandhi had been waiting for to launch the first real experiment in mass civil disobedience...
Creech Jones's second talk was with Lieut. General Sir Alan Cunningham, Palestine High Commissioner, who came to obtain permission for Britain's Palestine garrison (reinforced last week by hundreds of tanned desert veterans from Egypt) to launch an all-out offensive against Jewish extremists...
...will benefit more by this happy marriage--Wallace in his desire to have a vehicle from which he can launch his fight anew for "the Roosevelt tradition," or the New Republic in its need to boost circulation and become in itself the leading progressive force in American literary life? But important though this question may be, it is to many practical observers secondary to the still-unanswered, fundamental issue--that of whether Wallace's common men will come to the support of this new venture in enough numbers to make his voice a weekly boom in their behalf...
...proposals: 1) let the U.S. launch a huge cancer education campaign, like those on syphilis and tuberculosis, 2) let Congress up its $500,000 ("drop in the bucket") appropriation for cancer research...
Today's races will begin at 4.30 o'clock when the Seligman and Schaal boats take to the rive to decide the seventh runoff. Ross and Emmet will launch their crews in the eight at 4:35 o'clock...