Word: movements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Europe, Washington opinion last week rated 50-50 the chance of President Roosevelt's calling a special session of Congress to repeal or amend the Neutrality Act, which expires anyway next May 1. If he should call Congress, he would probably be embarrassed by revival of the movement for a Constitutional Amendment to require that the nation be polled before entering a foreign war. To oppose such a movement would argue-as loud Representative Hamilton Fish Jr. was already shouting last week-that the Roosevelt Administration is war-minded. To let it pass would tie down the Government...
...four years 35 physicians all over the U. S. have given 250 patients intramuscular injections of Arthranol. Over 90% of the patients were relieved. Many patients with the less severe hypertrophic arthritis were completely cured, and those with the incurable atrophic form attained greater freedom of movement. Said Dr. Stern: "First benefits in acute stages are evident in from 24 to 72 hours. No ill effect has been noted...
...Cardinal Verdier, said to them: "You have sworn to effect that miracle upon which in our timidity we had no longer counted." The 75,000 were Jocists, members of JOC (Jeunesse Ouvrière Chrétienne-Christian Working Youth), celebrating the tenth anniversary of the most vigorous youth movement outside Europe's dictator nations...
...Divine mission from God, second only to that of the priest, to bring the whole world to Christ." French-speaking workers in New Hampshire formed the first Jocist group in the U. S. A Catholic college student of Glendale, L. I., Vincent J. Ferrari, is launching the movement on a wider front, under the supervision of an able Paulist father, Rev. Paul Ward. Four Jocist study groups have been started. Jocist Ferrari, no worker himself, last week appeared minded to modify the thoroughly radical temper of European Jocism. Full of zeal against Communism, he seemed less interested in spreading labor...
...believes that a union officer can afford to have a foreign accent but an organizer cannot. Most popular courses, however, are the history of I. L. G. W. U. and the U. S. labor movement, labor problems & the news, public speaking, parliamentary law. Recently the union made a rule that no one may be elected a paid officer unless he has finished a training course...