Word: organisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Complained the London Economist, which hadn't been interrupted before since 1843: "So the Economist, the Spectator and the New Statesman must be treated on a dead level with the astrologists, the pornographers and the trashmongers. The daily organ of the licensed victuallers can continue to appear; we must stop ... if the Government's prohibition is maintained, we shall have no alternative next week but to obey it and to concede to Mr. Shinwell what Goring could not achieve...
Chet is also the founder and "grand diapason" of the Guild of Former Pipe Organ Pumpers (TIME, May 25, 1931), formed to combat the impression that all famous men earned their first dollars selling newspapers. He earned his at organ-pumping, and so did such distinguished members (Chet collected about 4,000 at $5 a "diploma") as Ring Lardner, Julius Rosenwald and Jimmy Walker...
...Official organ of the group is the "Harvard Progressive," 20-page magazine carrying articles on national and inter-national affairs, as well as short stories, poems, and literary reviews. Recently enlarged and expended, it accepts articles from college students throughout the nation, and anticipates country-wide circulation...
There was one discordant note in the Soviet welcome for Field Marshal Montgomery: an editorial in Pravda, official organ of the Communist Party, on the "suspicions and apprehensions that the backstage military and political activity of London and Washington continue to cause in progressive circles...
...Labor government had every advantage on its side at the outset. English unions have been recognized as among the most mature in existence. The central organ of collective action, the Trade Union Congress, has good disciplinary control over member bodies, and is the sparkplug behind the present cabinet, which was so gravely threatened by the strike. With Britain fighting for her commercial life, there has been a strong prejudice against any form of work stoppage. To prevent grievances, pecuniary and spiritual, there exists a well defined system of mediation boards with broad powers, set up by the Attlee cabinet...