Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years had passed since Francisco Franco called Germany and Italy "dear nations who were the vanguard of our movement." Last week he received the A.P.'s slow-to-startle DeWitt MacKenzie and startled him with this interview...
Dutch voices here in Java are quick to blame their own "woodenheaded" Parliament for its inability to roll with the punches in imperial British style. Many admit that the freedom movement had not been "made in Japan" (however much it was nurtured by Tokyo). President Soekarno had openly collaborated with the Japanese; but anti-Jap natives still rallied to his nationalist party...
After four years of defeat, imprisonment and abuse, the Dutch in Indonesia are morose, sullen and apparently unable to cope with the vigorous native independence movement. Many would agree with the young naval lieutenant who bitterly opined: "Who won the war I can't say. But I can tell you who lost...
...band. It mushroomed in Washington, D.C., Detroit, Indianapolis and St. Louis, and then in 1944 Baptist Torrey Johnson (pastor of Chicago's Midwest Bible Church) organized "Chicagoland" for Christ, quickly took over as a national leader. Today Y.F.C.'s rough estimates-there are no others-put the movement's strength at 300 "units" in the U.S., 200-odd more overseas. Average attendance at rallies: 350. Biggest Y.F.C. mobilization: 70,000 men, women and adolescents at Chicago's Soldier Field last Memorial...
...decided to get in on the selling end. I've never gotten a dime from him and we've never met. . . . We don't want anything to do with [Gerald L. K. Smith] or anyone with a political ax to grind. Y.F.C. is a 100% religious movement...