Word: movements
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...both war stocks and trained reserves should be put back on the list of "armaments" which the Preparatory Commission is seeking ways to reduce. Stressing particularly the urgency of limiting engines of warfare, Lord Cecil cried: "I consider machines rather than men the most vital factor in the world movement to end war. Nonlimitation of war materials is equivalent to non-disarmament...
...Today the whole aspect has changed. A tremendous movement to educate the people is in full swing. Every educated man in China-and the number of these men is becoming legion-is feverishly doing his utmost to make his country into a great, modern world Power...
Development of group banking in the U. S. has been rapid. Long a leader of the movement is the Transamerica Corp., holding company for the Giannini institutions. Of many similar organizations formed this year, largest until last week were the First Bank Stock Corp. (TIME, Sept. 2), now controlling 43 banks in the Minnesota-Montana region, with resources of $341,000,000 and the $370,000,000 Northern Bancorporation in the same region. But greatest of all will be Banker Rand's Marine Midland Corp...
...faculty and members of the University will be given an opportunity to sign the petition both at Leavitt and Peirce's and on Harvard Square. The organizers of the movement acted with the two-fold purpose of protesting against Mayor Nichols' actions, and of endorsing the Guild in its presentation of the play in Quincy on Monday evening. They hope that the petition will offset to a large extent the attacks which have been made on the Guild and "Strange Interlude" by various members of the local clergy...
Fact & Farce. Another speaker, the Rev. Owen M. Dudley, called Dean William Ralph Inge and the Rt. Rev. Ernest William Barnes, Bishop of Birmingham, "very ignorant men" because of their part in the movement against Anglo-Catholicism. The Church of England, said Mr. Dudley, is "fast becoming a farce. Numerically we [Anglo-Catholics] have just as much right to be the national church...