Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...those arrested was democratic, anti-Axis Juliu Maniu, leader of an increasingly powerful peasants' movement in Rumania. Probably most of the others jailed by Antonescu were not Iron Guardists, but antiFascists...
Said General Hershey: "No group deferments will be granted MRA or any other group." He also said that his 1941 finding that Buchmanism was "an essential element of our national-defense program" was "no endorsement of the work or policies of this movement...
...during the first decade of the 20th Century, came more than 2,000,000 Italians, part of history's greatest population movement.* Rootless and adrift in the New World, they formed "foreign language" enclaves such as the one in Rochester, N.Y., where dark, pun-loving Author Mangione grew up. "Most of my relatives lived in one neighborhood [nicknamed Mount Allegro], not more than five or six blocks from each other. That was about as far apart as they could live without feeling that America was a desolate and lonely place...
...time when the drive for repeal of the Wagner Act is already well under way, a small section of labor has been so reckless as to draw public condemnation upon the entire industrial organization movement. The first in months to violate labor's anti-strike pledge, the union is no run-of-the-mill union, but rather John L. Lewis' own United Mine Workers. This is not the usual workers vs. management strike; instead it is a rank and file revolt against autocratic union leadership which railroaded through the recent dues increase...
...plays, on such subjects as The Westward Movement and Immigration, were surprisingly well written, and the Workshopmen set about the task of producing them. Boston's short-wave station, WRUL, served as an adequate medium, even if practically no members of the student body were able to tune...