Word: movement
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...general public clamor" President Coolidge continued unresponsive, leaving G. O. Politicians just about where they were before. Men as daring as Senator Fess said that the "Draft Coolidge" movement had been vastly advanced, since now it must be seen that the draft would be genuine. Others were vexed, not daring to boom for Mr. Hoover, Mr. Hughes, Mr. Lowden, Mr. Dawes or Mr. Whoever until sure that they could believe in a convention prediction which Senator Fess has reported President Coolidge to have made. This prediction was one word shorter than the famed "choice." The President said...
About 80,000 lignite* miners in Central Germany went on strike and with it began a general movement for an increase of wages, long incipient...
With one victory each, the opposing teams again met in Symphony Hall in 1925, and the University team defeated Oxford on the negative of the question: "Resolved. That the growth and activities of the Socialist Movement are detrimental to human progress." Last year the Cambridge team's wit and eloquence proved too much for the logic of the Harvard speakers, and the Cantabrigians won, 715 to 274, by their support of the growing tendency of government to invade individual rights...
...Watson has been with the Hearst publications for 28 years. Famed in reportorial annals was his interview with the train engineer 23 years ago after the disaster in the old train tunnels under Park Avenue, Manhattan. Out of his interview grew the movement that eventually rebuilt that haughty thoroughfare. Mr. Watson has been working since he was 13; has been with the new York American for about a quarter of a century; was its managing editor. He has served Mr. Hearst in many a capacity, likes to be called "special crusader...
...between theoretical and practical experiments in education this project is both extremely timely and potentially valuable. Acting as a sort of clearing house for Old World information and data on industrial aviation the Business School is working for the cause of aviation in the United States, continuing in a movement which received its greatest impulse in Lindbergh's trans-Atlantic flight, and which still holds popular interest...