Word: masses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perhaps the most spectacular gesture of conciliation was made by Russia's cynical, ductile Andrei Vishinsky, who led a five-man Soviet delegation into St. Patrick's Cathedral to attend a Solemn Pontifical Mass for the United Nations on the Feast of Christ the King...
Materialist Vishinsky heard Msgr. Joseph F. Flanelly denounce "impious and rank materialists." After Mass Vishinsky bowed, smiled and warmly clasped the hand of the Most Rev. J. Francis A. Mclntyre. The new Russian line might turn out to be long or short, straight or crooked, but it was surely being drawn in crayon with a heavy hand...
...drastic measures were taken to break the strike. Armed police descended a thousand feet into the dim stopes of one mine, drove up, level by level, some 1,000 sit-down strikers. Backed by a law forbidding gatherings of more than 20 natives on mine property, police quickly smashed mass meetings. Other cops swept through the Communists' and Springbok Legion's (a progressive veterans' organization) offices throughout the land. Most of the Central Committee of the puny Communist Party, together with known trade-union leaders, were arrested. Investigation showed that the calling of the strike was opposed...
...intend scheduling the greatest works of music, drama, opera, etc., and the best radio technique, with no concession whatever to mass taste. I'm not going to move an inch from my standard. The listeners will have to come...
...mass of companies, the results depended on whether they had been hit by strikes and material shortages. If they had not, they were likely to be way up, like Electrolux (to $2,184,329 as compared to $730,996). If they were hit, they were likely to be like Yale & Towne, with an operating deficit for the nine months of $524,450 (v. $774,237 profit). Those who had been hard hit earlier in the year were coming back. Example: after losing $5,980,179 in the first two quarters, General Electric made enough in the third to recoup...