Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...answer to the unanswerable question of which came first, the "smoke" or the "fire," Dunlop replied by asking if the trade union is still a private club; is the organized labor movement organized for self-reform; do unions give people what they want; and is this proper criteria to judge the performance of any social organization...
Employment. "[We must] make sure that we have projects for the future employment of people and a forward movement of our industries, carefully foreseen, and secondly that private enterprise and state enterprise are both able to play their parts to the utmost. . . . We must strive to secure our fair share of an augmented foreign trade...
Ranking with these in interest are graves. Here again the amateur can do irreparable damage: "The successful removal of a skeleton often calls for unusual skill and an inordinate expenditure of time and patience. In damp ground bones may be so soft as to defy movement until hardened by drying or by special treatment with fixing solutions. An inexperienced digger may tear away a skeleton without being aware of its presence. Since the teeth are less likely to take on the color of the damp soil, a bungling amateur may report that he found no bones, merely a few teeth...
...John Reed Society is sponsoring an open forum tonight which will feature a number of talks by members of the College who were living in France before the German conquest of 1940. The will speak on the possibilities of an undercurrent movement in France today...
...Australia the people are agreed on the main thing they want after the war: a home of their own. They want a "fair and square go" for the workingman, liberty, jobs, and freedom of movement. Looking backwards on life in the dripping jungle of Buna, on days in the yellow kunai grass and slimy swamps, on Japs crouching in jungle-covered nests, on death in the rivers, in the trees, in the air, in Jap bunkers, a soldier could say, "That's all I want out of this -a home and a wife and kids and all the rest...