Word: masses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Groton, Mass...
ELINOR H. DEAL Wellesley, Mass...
...Rakosi's order nationalizing the country's 4,813 Catholic schools. In 1944, Mindszenty had been jailed for four months for his opposition to Naziism; now he was risking himself again. Through the Hungarian countryside he drove his own Alfa-Romeo at a dangerous pace from one mass meeting to another. After Communist police cut the power supply for his sound truck, he got his own portable generator. The government warned Hungarians not to listen, but the cardinal drew crowds of as many...
...ministerial act that set angry South Africans of all shades jampacking Johannesburg's Market Square in protest and touched off the biggest mass meeting ever held in Kimberley was that of Justice Minister Charles ("Blackie") Swart. To symbolize "the deep desire" of the Malan government "to relieve the people of the Union from the strain of the war years," Minister Swart released from prison five wartime traitors and saboteurs. One was 34-year-old ex-Boxer Sydney Roby Leibbrandt, who had been landed from a German U-boat to organize the pro-Nazi underground. South Africans remembered...
...England Conscience. In Shirley, Mass., the Rev. Ray Meserve politely requested the "godly" to stay away from his special "sinners only" church service, thereupon had the biggest attendance since Easter...