Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...question will now be asked: What goal does the Episcopal Church have in view for the ecumenical movement? . . . Does the Anglican communion envisage a united church in terms which embrace all non-Roman churches, or does its enthusiasm for unity derive from the expectation that the Episcopal Church will itself absorb all other churches into its own ecclesiastical system . . . The attitude revealed at Philadelphia will be interpreted as a disclosure of the sectarian isolationism of the Episcopal Church. . . . [Its] prestige . . . as a leader in this great [unity] enterprise has been damaged, if not forfeited...
...percent are adherents of the H.L.U. The membership of the investigating committee was chosen by a small percentage of the voters, for the issue then as now aroused little interest. We therefore charge first, that Student Council reform cannot by any stretch of the imagination be called a popular movement, and that its members are for the most part wheels and friends of wheels in the organizations initiating the move, namely, the H.L.U., and AVC, and the Crimson. It is conceivable that these men represent these organizations, but to claim that they are the popularly-chosen voices of a thoroughly...
Bishop Oxnam has figured widely in the news recently in the dispute in Knoxville, Tennessee, where he is scheduled to address a teachers' convention of the East Tennessee Education Association. Shortly after the announcement of his intended visit, the Knoxville Journal started a protest movement against his reception on the ground that he was communistic...
Before dodging all of the bricks coming his way, he will wish for a foxhole a mile deep, and will have earned more than one Purple Heart. I know from experience, as I passed up my discharge bonus and endeavored at that time to organize a vet movement against further Treasury raids...
...Common Criminals." Worse still, the movement had a "mass character." In the Kuibyshev region alone, a check on "by no means all" the collective farms had already uncovered 19,367 cases of "turning them into sources of private income." Presumably at least that many Russians were involved. The decree added that these "common criminals guilty of anti-government activity" would be tried without delay...