Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Europe. But they were afraid that if they joined, "the reactionary and pro-fascist forces now whipping up anti-Communist hysteria . . . would undoubtedly seize upon such action . . . as a pretext for new provocations and repressions against the Communists and all other sections of the American labor and progressive movement...
...elite of Armenia. The poor among them seemed sure that Russia offered them opportunity the U.S. had denied them. But there were things about their journey which many of them did not know. Most seemed ignorant of the fact that they were one small part of a mass movement -that Russia, which needs men for her farms & factories in Armenia, was bringing Armenians back by the thousands from poorer European countries and the Middle East. All 150 had renounced their U.S. citizenship and were sailing as Russian immigrants, but some had the mistaken idea that they could come back...
...Some of Cripps's best Labor friends became members of his official family. Cripps supervises four ministries directly: Board of Trade, Supply, Transport, and Fuel & Power. Of the four ministers only Alfred Barnes, Minister of Transport, is not a socialist intellectual. One of the founders of the cooperative movement, Barnes is more the old-style labor leader. Cripps's closest friend and adviser is 46-year-old George Strauss, tall and swarthy Minister of Supply. Like Cripps, he is an upper-class leftist. Son of a wealthy metal merchant, Strauss was one of the faithful few who were...
Passion for Power. Frank Algernon Cowperwood, the central character of the trilogy, is a Chicago traction magnate and stock manipulator, an obnoxious example of greed, he is socially snubbed and politically hobbled during a reform movement. The Stoic depicts his attempts to muscle in on the underground transportation system of London -a move which is thwarted by his death. Cowperwood's career, as Dreiser editorializes on it, is an indictment of both the social environment which permits unlicensed power, and the compulsions (what he calls "chemisms") which drive men to seek power...
...Author. Aging (62) François Mauriac, a leading Roman Catholic opponent of the Franco regime in Spain, joined the resistance movement during World War II. Producing clandestine pamphlets, newspapers and books with such fellow writers & artists as Communist Poet Louis Aragon, he learned to respect the fighting qualities of the Communists. After the war he sought for a way to bring the U.S. and Russia together, has since decided that compromise is impossible. He now writes editorials for Paris' conservative daily Figaro, advocating a strong, vigilant western world under U.S. leadership...