Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eventual monetary result of the new contract will be to raise the average hourly wage of the dining hall employees 16 percent, but the upward movement will not take place immediately, Reynolds emphasized, because of the necessity of hiring more employees to fill in when the work-week is reduced to five days...
Gruber, who is his country's Foreign Minister and was a leader of the resistance movement during the war, has recently achieved prominence by his handling of the Southern Tyrol hand-over in the Paris Peace Conference. He is now in the U. S. to seek Austrian admission to UN membership, a move which has been seconded by Secretary Byrnes...
...felt practically "streamlined" because he no longer had to carry currency control books. An inspection of his lightened pockets disclosed, however, that in order to do his job in Germany he still had to have on his person some 25 items-from "travel orders in 15 copies permitting movement about Germany" to "a car owner's license the size of the front page of Stars and Stripes...
They reckoned without Luigi Longo, who represented the Communists in the discussions with Pertini. Moscow-trained Longo, an eloquent, sardonic veteran of the resistance movement, worked on resistance veteran Pertini in a series of secret meetings beginning in July. He got nowhere until mid-October, when Pertini began to waver. Longo's arguments included the charge that De Gasperi's government was dragging its feet on nationalization and land reform. Increasingly, Longo's case was helped by the West's blunders: Paris Conference treaty terms which Italians considered harsh and impossible to meet; failure of UNRRA...
...squatters moved in on Montreal last week. And the Communists moved in on the squatters. Leader of the Montreal squatters, who took over two empty gambling joints, was Henri Gagnon, 36, Quebec's No. 1 Communist and an organizer of the Communist Labor Progressive Party. The Montreal squatting movement, like others in Canada, was born out of the attempts of non-Communist veterans to find living quarters. At the first Montreal meeting, Gagnon appeared, had himself elected president of the newly formed Homeless Veterans' League, and led the squats...