Word: movement
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chosen by Belgium's hero Cardinal, the late Desire Mercier, to serve as an inscription across the facade of the rebuilt Library of Louvain. To gentle yet righteously incensed Desire Mercier "furore" seemed none too harsh a word to apply to Huns; but nowadays there is a milksop movement afoot to emasculate the Louvain inscription until it could not possibly give offense to those jovial, harmless fellows the Germans, who sacked and burned the original Library of Louvain...
...futility of Jackson, as of Lee, lies in the fact that he was on the wrong side. Infinitely ambitious, a born leader of men, his destiny made him the puny obstacle to a movement greater than men--the economic revolution which doomed the South and exalted the North...
Also, last week, in Washington, a movement was reported among Negro organizations to hold a national convention next month and nominate a white-black ticket for President and Vice President...
There is one other man in the field, however, and that is Norman Thomas. He is the Socialist candidate for president, and in him is centered a movement toward a definite, worthwhile goal. He is the rightful heir to the LaFollette movement of four years ago; and we know that Norman Thomas can bring into being a liberal party that shall not have for its aim the good-natured joshing of the populace, the policy of the party out of power; nor of political corruption, an important activity of the party in power but the hitherto unrealized program of concrete...
...steadily toward Pekin. And in the dispute with dominant Japan, the United States is suggested, as a probable mediator. Because of important American business interests a natural bias will suggest a decision favorable to imperialistic enterprise and prejudicial to the anti-foreign Chinese Nation. Such interference with an independent movement is presently pragmatical, but it forestalls the day when all peoples must be autonomous, and it suggests too much another Nicaragua...