Word: manifestoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After picking Brussels as the new organization's permanent site, the congress adopted a manifesto setting forth its policies, and purposes. A committee under the C.I.O.'s Walter Reuther drafted a text which managed to please both the T.U.C. and A.F.L. The slogans adopted...
...Said the manifesto: "We assert that economic and political democracy are inseparable . . . [We call on the world's workers to] unite with us to achieve a world in which people are free from Communist, Fascist, Falangist and other forms of totalitarianism...
...idea. In many respects it is, but actually "The New Theater" is a compromise between "theater-in-the-round" and the present proscenium stage. A lot of the new stage is still hidden from the audience--enough to allow for rapid changes of scenery. According to Mr. Wright's manifesto, which is posted near the model, scenery is built below the stage and rises on ramps to the playing area, which is equipped with a revolving disk. The "fly gallery" above the stage is completely eliminated...
...Present. As time passed, the Chicago Fight earned the university various tags-"Chicago Thomism," "Aristotelianism on the Midway," the "Return to the Middle Ages." Some professors, including Gideonse and George Mead, head of the philosophy department, resigned. One hundred and nineteen members of the academic senate signed a manifesto protesting Hutchins' views. Professors began calling him "Saint Robert of the Midway." >A new song was sung: "Should auld Aquinas be forgot...
...church law, by the usual unanimous show of hands, which made all clergymen employees of the state, and set up President Klement Gottwald's Communist son-in-law, Alexej Cepicka, as cabinet minister in charge of religion. The Catholic Church had consistently fought against the law; one manifesto, signed by 80% of the country's 7,000 priests, declared it "absolutely unacceptable." A memorandum sent to the government by the Council of Bishops a week after the passage of the law charged that it violated the Czech Republic's constitution (which guarantees freedom of religion...