Word: movement
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...depends, to a large extent, the Negro vote in Northern States like Ohio and Illinois, where it is often crucial. The white gentlemen, exponents of the "New South," urged Mr. Hoover to buttress and continue the revolt against the "black machines" of the South, to cultivate the "lily-white" movement by which it is hoped to Republicanize permanently many a Southern Democrat whose party faith was shaken by Rum and Romanism...
...fact that I have not read in the papers or periodicals any mention of any attempt having been made to start a movement toward the erection of a Museum of Peace, prompts me to write to ask if such a Museum has not been considered and if not your idea as to the practicability...
...England was a man called Gladstone and one called Manning and one called Newman. And in England, at Oxford, was a movement which Pius IX had watched with great interest. For the Oxford movement eventually made both Manning and Newman Catholics and Manning became an Archbishop and both became Cardinals...
Science and the sanctity of free speech were much discussed in Europe. Voltaire and Diderot had not written in vain. In England, Newman and Manning, hearing irreverences in the free speech, started the Oxford movement, which was simply a revitalized literal belief in such credos as the 39 Articles. Neither realized then that they had taken one of the many roads to Rome...
...these four railroads held conferences in which the eastern railroad field was tentatively divided among them, but the negotiations were abandoned chiefly because the Pennsylvania did not believe that it had received its proper share of the short lines. Since the failure of these negotiations, no decisive merger movement has taken place. Last fortnight, however, the New York Central secured the approval of the Interstate Commerce Commission in acquiring the Big Four and Michigan Central roads, stock control of which it has for some time owned (TIME, Feb. 4). It is believed that the Van Sweringen Brothers will also proceed...