Word: organizers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wrote the U.S.S.R.'s President Mikhail Kalinin in The Agitators' Guidebook, organ of Moscow's Communist Party: "We are often told that among our soldiers, especially those of older age, there are believers who wear crosses and recite prayers whom the younger people ridicule...
...early youth and never forgot it. From his part-time blacksmith father he learned atheism and anarchy. From his schoolteacher mother he learned enough culture to become, first a grade-school teacher, then a journalist. He sold out the policy of his first important newspaper (Avanti), official organ of the Italian Socialist Party, for a reported price of $8,000 a month...
German spokesmen told their own people that they were losing the campaign which had been touted to them as their main means of defense. Said an official Nazi organ: "However untiringly U-boats fight against American convoys* in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, it is not possible to strangle enemy supply lines." As every German knew, the chief purpose of the 1943 U-boat campaign had been to strangle those lines and thus to save the Continent from invasion...
Arcangelo Corelli: Concerto in C Major for Organ and Strings (Arthur Fiedler's Sinfonietta with E. Power Biggs, Victor; 4 sides). Suave, serene, 17th-Century classicism by the earliest of all great violinists (also a composer of parts). Corelli's original has been touched up by Italy's contemporary G. Francesco Malipiero...
...chapel which the church supported. Coffin abolished the chapel, brought the two congregations together. He abolished pew rents (a daring innovation in those days), got new parishioners by following moving vans in the neighborhood, ringing the bell before the family got settled. He regularly took his folding reed organ to tenement houses at 2 in the morning to hold a service for neighborhood street railway workers arriving home from the night shift...