Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...No.1 problem of the capitalist countries is "preservation of the capitalist system," but "the bourgeoisie is frightened at the general trend to the left in the workers' movement all over the world...
British Communists reached for the leadership of Britain's Squatter Movement (TIME, Sept. 2). Into two blocks of swank Kensington flats and eight adjoining buildings they led a small army of families who have been living in crowded conditions reminiscent of Moscow. Said Communist Party headquarters: "Regardless of any official warning, we are determined to get 10,000 of our members into decent houses immediately." This week, Prime Minister Clement R. Attlee called an agitated special Cabinet meeting to consider the emergency...
...decision to be taken at Philadelphia will deeply concern the Episcopal Church, but it also concerns the whole of Protestantism and will have profound implications for the ecumenical movement. This movement was originally launched by an action of the Episcopal General Convention of 1910 which arrested the attention of the Christian world. ... It has already borne an interim fruitage in the implementation of a World Council of Churches...
...four years, a group of physicians and psychiatrists has sat down to breakfast in the Detroit Athletic Club. Their aim and table topic: to revive the unfashionable belief that babies should be breast-fed and coddled by their mothers. By last week their revolutionary crusade had become a national movement to urge that Mother Nature knows best...
...movement's name: the Cornelian Corner, from 1) Cornelia, Roman mother of the Gracchi, who called her sons her "jewels," and 2) the time-honored maternal practice of turning toward a corner, away from the family, when nursing a baby. Its president: Detroit Psychiatrist Max Wolfe...