Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...successful were the worksheets that an official request was made that these studies of morale be continued and extended. Accordingly, the movement was expanded to 23 other universities from coast to coast...
...voting themselves a chance to buy a pension at Government expense (TIME, Feb. 2). Extreme case: a defeated Congressman who had served five years could buy himself a life pension with one payment of $1.39. In the State of Washington the Spokane Athletic Club started a Bundles for Congress movement: "Don't worry about the war & taxes: get that pension-forget the Axis." The jokers hired a huge truck, announced plans to drive it to Washington, filled with packages of old razor blades, night caps, broken phonograph records of I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby...
...heavy and hot. Members began to dodge and weasel. Some talked back. Snapped Washington's Representative Martin F. Smith: "What object is there in making a Congressman look like an ignoramus and a crook?" Michigan's Representative Frank E. Hook hinted darkly that the Bundles for Congress movement was a Nazi plot. But most knew, with familiar dread, that this one issue might ruin them in their home district. A repeal movement grew...
...easy solutions to these problems came out of Chicago last week. Defense Transport Tsar Joseph Eastman warned the transitmen that the railroads, with "a herculean job in the movement of troops," could not be expected to carry any more of the local passenger load. The conferees all agreed on one partial solution: staggered work hours for local businesses, schools, etc. Washington greatly eased its frightful traffic tie-ups by putting Government departments on staggered schedules...
...Sixth Symphony combines a slow, philosophizing opening movement which rises to moments of quivering beauty with two high-geared, jolly movements, raucous with peasant mirth...