Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Moral Rearmament" is entering a heyday. The personalistic revival movement which started under Frank Buchman as the Oxford Group after the first World War and took hold in the United States most successfully in the late Thirties now bids for big stakes, proclaiming that it offers "the answering ideology to Communism." Last Monday and Tuesday nights' overflow crowds of fashionable gentry at the Colonial Theatre watched Boston's free-of-charge performances of "The Good Road," MRA's touring propaganda spokesman in musical revue guise...
...immigration (present limit fixed by the British: 1,500 a month) would increase Jewish strength. The British government considered transferring 16,000 Jews to Palestine from Cyprus before Feb. 1, admitting 10,000 Jews a month to Palestine thereafter. U.S. officials in Germany, Austria and Italy began planning the movement of 6,250 Jewish D.P.s a month, beginning in February. The Jewish Agency for Palestine gave priority to young people, able to build or fight...
...gates a striker had planted a tricolor flag, which drooped in the grey air. In Sains, as elsewhere in France, men wanted to work; in Sains they could not. In a tavern on the Grande Rue they discussed the extraordinary leader of the town's back-to-work movement: the Abbé Georges Lorent, priest of the local church, also the mayor of Sains-en-Gohelle...
Fabled Prices. Despite the size of the King Ranch and its meat production, the nation focused anxious eyes last week on Bob Kleberg and his fellow U.S. cattlemen. This year they will send to slaughter an estimated record 36 million head of cattle. This tremendous movement of cattle from the ranges and feed lots has tended recently to force down the sky-high prices of meat in spite of the voracious demand. But now that the seasonal period of plenty is about over, what is the outlook for prices and supply? It is dark-if present demand continues...
Council President Edrie A. Wold, Jr. '46, however, refused to comment on the protest movement. As far as the Council is concerned, he said, the nominations will stand...