Word: masses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dionne, a religious man who goes to Mass every morning, is also a believer in the letter of the law. He keeps wages in most cases close to the legal minimum of 20? an hour, or $9.60 for a 48-hour week. Girls housed at Le Foyer spend $6 of this amount for board & keep...
Though China was old and wise after 40 centuries of civilization, only 15% of her people knew how to read & write when James Yang Ch'u Yen and his Mass Education Movement went to work. In 24 years Chinese education has been revolutionized. The forces of history and the energy of many scholars had a lot to do with it. So did Jimmy Yen. Last week Jimmy Yen, in the U.S. looking for help to continue the job, reported that China's illiteracy rate has been reduced...
...Hitler and Göring were Farben's board chairman Hermann Schmitz and Georg von Schnitzler, sales manager, who were mainly responsible for the growth of Farben into the world's most powerful chemical giant. The U.S. charged the 24 civilians with fomenting and waging aggressive war, mass murder, plunder and "complete synchronization" with the Nazi High Command. The burden of the indictment was that, without Farben, the Nazis could not have...
...have shut down alto gether, while at least 25% are running only two or three days a week. About one-fourth of New England's 100,000 shoe workers are either out of work or have taken a deep cut in their take-home pay. Haverhill and Lynn, Mass., center of the women's shoe industry, have been the hardest...
Bernice Lewis, executive secretary of the Mass. Independent Voters Union, addressed the meeting which was chaired by Mary Bruchholz, Radcliffe '49. Although the New England region is to consist of chapters at campuses from Maine to Connecticut, only Harvard, Radcliffe, Smith, Mount Holyoke, and Simmons were represented yesterday...