Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prime Minister Herbert Morrison, in his first public speech after five months of illness, tried pleading. Said he: "Unofficial strikes are really strikes against trade unionism and against trade union democracy. If these adventures which are damaging our national economy continue . . . [they] will bring discredit upon the whole labor movement. To the trade union rank & file I would say: Resist the activities of men who bring you into conflict with your union...
Although it has done some positive good, the so-called Newburyport Plan (popular misconceptions to the side) has not brought about general price reductions. Nor was it intended to. Essentially, the ten percent retail price reduction movement is a somber, out of season, post-Christmas clearing sale. Many merchants, rightfully fearful that shoddy, overpriced good would rot on shelves, to be written off as complete losses, saw the light and began selling at wholesale cost. The resultant waves of buying have emptied shelves at no net loss. While a plasma infusion to the store-keeper, this phenomenon has no effect...
Speaking at the Catholic Club's final meeting of the year last night, Magr. Charles McInis discussed the career and teachings of Mary Baker Eddy, founder of the Christian Science movement...
Rabbi Joshua Loth Liebman told a capacity crowd at Agassix Theatre last night that the intellectual trend today is one towards "negativism, alienatation, and pessimism," while the reaction to this is "herdism, expressing itself in such a movement as Nazism...
...dissident, anti-Communist Social ists under Giuseppe Saragat have made no progress since their secession (TIME, Jan. 20). The one anti-Communist party which has done relatively well is Gian, nini's nee-Fascist Common Man movement, which appeals to many disillusioned Christian Democrats. It points up the obvious but disastrous desire (which helped Hitler and Mussolini to power) to fight Communism with typical totalitarian methods...