Word: organ
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...neighborhood was a little hazy about the Mission's exact creed. Most of the people along the street were Irish or Polish Roman Catholics, and they took no interest in its services. But they often heard the organ wheezing away and saw clergymen piously coming & going-there was Father Raymond Norman, and Father Lyman Appleby, and Archbishop William F. Tyarks, a bony and ancient cleric. They all belonged to something called the American Catholic Orthodox Church. Everybody knew they Were not Roman Catholics-Mrs. Fitzgerald, who lived in a flat over the Mission, reported that they ate baloney last...
...London it was announced that the current issue of Mikolajczyk's Peasant Party organ Jutro Polski, would be the last. This seemed a hint that he might return to Poland to participate in the Warsaw Government. At week's end the press announced that Mikolajczyk and Karol Popiel, Christian Democratic leader, were waiting for Prime Minister Churchill's return from Yalta to go to Moscow and arrange to join the Warsaw Government...
...Holland, as in Belgium, political unrest began in the stomach. The Government organ, Voice of The Netherlands, reported: in Nazi-held Holland. 4,500,000 persons now get daily food rations of 450 to 650 calories-or, roughly, "one-third of what the human body needs to keep alive while doing nothing, one-fifth of what it needs while exerting itself. . . . This is plain famine-stark, inescapable. ... It just means death. It kills...
...recognized by the U.S. and Britain, denounced the new Warsaw Government as "a gang of little men," cried: "We hold out our hand to Russia." But Russia clearly had more faith in the Warsaw Government's President Boleslaw Bierut, who according to the Polish Telegraph Agency (the official organ of the London Poles), had been in the Soviet service for some 20 years. Under the name Bienkowski he had been head of the Polish section of the Communist International. Under the name Rutkowski he had been head of the Polish section of the GPU (secret police). The name Bierut...
...Navy Journal's circulation (27,568 weekly) but to its reputation as an "unofficial but authoritative" spokesman for the U.S. Army & Navy. The Journal itself likes to foster this impression by reprinting each week from its 1863 announcement: "Established in obedience to an insistent demand for an official organ for members of the American Defense and those concerned with it." Actually, the Journal is not in the least official. Nor is it always authoritative...