Word: movements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reference to that point might suggest. I was a pacifist during the last War and for several years thereafter and was forced to resign my pulpit during the War because of that. Then I had a period when I was out of both the church and the pacifist movement, returning to both...
...Alvin Mansfield Owsley of Dallas, Tex., onetime (1922-23) National Commander of the American Legion, resigned last week as Franklin Roosevelt's Minister to Denmark & Iceland "for personal reasons." Reason construed by other friends of John Nance Garner: to help the Stop-Roosevelt movement...
...young people were Jocists, members of a Belgian-born youth movement, Jeunesse Ouvrière Chrétienne (Christian Working Youth), which militantly aims to Christianize the ranks of labor (TIME, Sept. 26). For eight years Jocism's most vigorous leader in Canada has been Father Roy, 40, a onetime newsboy who belongs to the same religious order (Oblates of Mary Immaculate) as Quebec's Cardinal Villeneuve. To Father Roy, 50,000 Canadian Jocists, aged 14 to 25, look for spiritual inspiration. The mass marriage was his biggest effort to date in providing it. It would, he thought...
...hotel room. Average age of the men-all of them employed at around $25 a week-was 26, of the women, who were to give up their jobs if they were employed, 23. According to Jocism's rules, the weddings automatically ended their membership in the movement. But Father Roy got around that by launching for young married couples a new Ligue Ouvrière Catholique (Catholic Workers' League), with similar aims...
...Heaven achieved on earth. When he realized that the upsurge of Jewish nationalism inspired by Christ was likely instead to make the Romans sweep away the remnants of Jewish independence, he allowed the Sanhedrin to flatter him into thinking it was his glorious duty to stop the revolutionary movement. The payment of the 30 pieces of silver shocked him, showed him that he had been a common informer. "There was one refuge left...