Word: organize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first eleven years of its life the New Leader was the organ of the Socialist Party. Since the Party's split in 1935 into militantly Marxist and New Dealish segments, the weekly has been the voice of the New Dealish group, which calls itself the Social Democratic Federation. Social Democrats combine the pragmatism of Philosopher John Dewey (a frequent New Leader contributor) with, as their name implies, a desire for "democratic socialism." They are pro-trade union and wish there were more union leaders like the garment workers' David Dubinsky. Beyond that they disagree among themselves on pros...
...schedule the Kremlin's diplomacy decided last week that the time had come to drive a wedge among Catholics. They chose Izvestia, official organ of the Soviet Government, as the instrument, and a recent Foreign Policy Association report on Vatican policy as a handy starting point. Wrote Izvestia...
...grey-green army tents, clumping the snow and muck off their boots as they entered. It was warmer inside and the stench was overpowering. Dr. Prozorovsky ripped open a corpse numbered 808, sliced chunks off the brain like cold meat, knifed through the chest and pulled out an atrophied organ. "Heart," he said, holding it out to Kathy. Then he slit a leg muscle. "Look how well preserved the meat is," he said. The skulls all revealed a small hole at the back, generally another through the forehead, showing that the Poles had been butchered by pistol, fired from behind...
According to one description, the launchers are arranged like a flat bank of ten organ pipes at the bow of a small naval landing craft. The crew takes shelter in the bottom of the craft to avoid the backlash of flame from the rockets. The firing is directed from a steel, asbestos-lined turret in the stern. Navy officers conceded that the rockets had proved of value, but discouraged over-sensational treatment of the weapon, pointing out that it could only supplement the heavy-artillery barrage before a landing...
John Challis, who is a first-rate harpsichordist himself, was born in Ypsilanti 36 years ago, the son of a jeweler and watchmaker. While at Michigan State Normal College (where he studied piano and organ), he heard his first clavichord, decided to make one. His handiwork was so successful that he went to England to study ancient instruments with Arnold Dolmetsch...