Word: manifestoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Herbert Hoover turned pollster last week. Irked because 176 facultymen at his alma mater, Stanford University, had signed a manifesto demanding a "more dynamic defense" against totalitarianism, Mr. Hoover personally sent a questionnaire to Stanford's 800 teachers. To Mr. Hoover, "more dynamic defense" meant "military action." His conclusion, released to the interventionist Stanford Daily (see above) : 60% of the faculty disagreed with the signers of the manifesto...
...residents of the Paris basin an official manifesto was issued, threatening death for sheltering R.A.F. flyers, two crews of whom mysteriously vanished last week when shot down on the city's outskirts...
...Progressive Education Association has among its 10,000 members many Quakers who abjure war. But last week directors of P.E.A. endorsed a manifesto signed by twelve of the 14 editors of P.E.A.'s journal of opinion, Frontiers of Democracy...
Chastened, the Kuomintang went into an executive huddle, emerged with a set of specific reforms and a manifesto of new intentions. It agreed to form additional local Political Councils. This in itself was a long step toward persuading the doubting Chinese people that the Kuomintang was working for democracy and not for its own perpetuation in power. The Kuomintang also agreed that the National Government would take over the whole job of distributing food and other necessities, thereby doing away with hoarding which has resulted in coolies starving while rich men speculated. It further agreed that the Government would henceforth...
Cause of the revised regulation was presumably the anti-war manifesto which four U. S. Methodist missionaries in India sent to the Viceroy last winter. Said they, quoting Will Durant: "British ownership of India has been a calamity and a crime." This manifesto obviously broke the four missionaries' pledges. But the British authorities wisely lay low, let the Methodist bishops in India (who rule 256 churches, 106,237 communicants) make the running by asking their Board of Foreign Missions in Manhattan to recall Jay Holmes Smith of Lucknow, Paul K. Keene of Mussoorie, Mr. & Mrs. Ralph T. Templin...