Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Long before the government had buried its dead, it had moved against the leftist (but anti-Marxist) Aprista party. First it outlawed APRA, which the government flatly said "prepared and directed the movement." The government's evidence of guilt: most of the Aprista prisoners were armed when arrested, APRA was strong among the naval men who mutinied, one Aprista leader had told a friend that "revolt was imminent...
Charles P. Dribben '51, of Missouri, is leading the fourth-party movement and has set up a temporary office in his room in Little 41. The Dixiecrats hope to hold a rally for States-Rights Democratic Presidential candidate Governor J. Strom Thurmond...
...that another one has popped up at Yale, and that the boys are now trying to get Free Enterprise Societies set up in other colleges all over the country, and that once they've done that, they think maybe they'll organize the whole works into a unified movement--when all this came out, and when I saw the industry they were putting into the different projects, getting out booklets and newsletters and so on, I began to view with alarm a little. Not that they can do any harm by themselves. But when you get a large organization, full...
...suited craftiness. Loudly, Longo had threatened insurrection, had ordered unpopular (and unsuccessful) nationwide strikes. At a closed meeting of the party's Central Committee, Togliatti last week listened to Longo defend his policy, then flatly contradicted him. Said Togliatti: "We cannot pin our hopes on a large insurrectional movement . . . Our objective is still gaining a majority by preserving all our old alliances and making new ones. Let us beware of locking ourselves up in our own walls...
While this and similar problems (such as the proposed movement to ultra high frequencies) are threshed out, TV will mark time. The 37 existing stations will continue telecasting; 87 others, with construction permits, may build if they choose; 303 applications for stations are to be frozen for the time being. This means that many a U.S. city which had looked forward to TV within the year will have to wait another year-or longer...