Word: masses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...months. A fortnight ago he left Manhattan's Misericordia Hospital for California, hoping to convalesce in a convent at Alhambra. There, around 7 o'clock one morning last week, Msgr. Paul Nicole, the Cardinal's secretary, entered the prelate's room vested for Mass. The Cardinal was sitting before a small altar. The secretary finished the Introit (preliminary to Mass). Then the Cardinal interrupted...
...start your Mass now," he said quietly. "I feel myself dying. You will administer unto me the last sacraments and give me the apostolic blessing...
...Ribbing's pills, a five-months-old Swedish-American Line experiment, helped. But against seasickness of that momentum and mass, nothing is much of a success. Like similar pills concocted by the Canadian Navy and the U.S. Army during the war, they are compounded of drugs (scopolamine and a mild barbiturate) to quiet the nerves. Ribbing has a refinement: an injection of the same preparation for victims too far gone to swallow. But the drugs (which are dangerous and should be taken only by a doctor's prescription) are not much help after a victim gets his larynx...
...little too much coached, perfected to the point where they seem artificial. ... At the same time, I found more good at Caux than critics had led me to expect. M.R.A. has cut away the theological language which repels the layman. If it falls into the inanities and dangers of mass propaganda, it does appreciate the need of using words that people can understand and respect...