Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Save the Marshall Plan" rally will sweep into Sanders Theater this evening to climax a hasty but determined movement to influence Congressional action on the European Recovery Program. In a remarkably short time, the "Save ERP" campaign has spread to 35 colleges and universities in New England. Local committees have hustled out hundreds of letters, petitions, and telegrams to Congressmen, and in at least 20 of those schools, rallies similar to tonight's are planned...
...pass a bill requiring U.S. Communists to register as agents of a foreign nation, predicted that Communists would simply ignore it. Said Davis: "We . . . refuse to be put in the category of political suspects. . . . Gentlemen, it is not within your power to legislate the failure of this mighty movement...
...Labor government had not yet dared to tell Britons what they faced. Sir Stafford Cripps, by proposing a wage freeze (TIME, Feb 16), had led Labor up to one big hurdle. But could the keen-minded jockey make the massive, stubborn trades union movement take even this first unpleasant jump? Was the beast bred or built...
...Atlantic City, N.J., the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (Northern) disclosed that 12,000 new members had been added to its rolls during the last five months. These are the first fruits of the "New Life Movement," in which Presbyterians have set themselves a three-year goal of 1,000,000 new members and 300 new churches. During 1948, more than 100,000 Presbyterian laymen, will be recruited and trained as evangelists...
...little creature, a child shrilled: "What is it, momma, a lamb?" Unconscious of the childish blasphemy and of the Madison Square Garden crowd, Dr. Samuel Milbank studied the Bedlington terrier intently-measuring his narrow skull, feeling his linty coat and reached (arched) back, testing his alertness and movement...