Word: progression
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same time, Dr. Antonin Mandl, secretary of the Vatican-recognized Catholic Action, was arrested and sent to join the 100-odd priests in Czech prisons. Education Minister Vaclav Kopecky announced that henceforth all Catholic seminaries will be provided with political instructors. They will teach compulsory courses in "social progress," which seminarians must pass to continue their studies...
...situation in Europe ... I am not contented with myself . . . with the development of my character . . . and with my literary career ... At any rate, there seems to me very little ground for general contentment . . . and I must repeat ... I fear the contented man. I fear him, because there is no progress unless there is discontent . . . Without it today, I even believe, there can be no inner peace of mind...
...word was: "Complete deadlock." The outcome of the Big Four talks at Paris was still uncertain (see below), but it remained probable that the Russians wanted a limited settlement in Europe. They wanted it not because they had stopped being Communists committed to world revolution, but because Communist progress in Europe had been checked while Communist progress in Asia was rolling right along...
...cancellations) if he did not "lay off"; his telephone rang with anonymous threats. Advertisers organized a boycott of the Sentinel; 100 subscriptions were canceled. Only then did the Sentinel take a firm stand in the strike. Wrote angry Editor Crowder: "The City Council is bucking the line of human progress at the expense of all the people . . ." To offset the canceled subscriptions, 300 C.I.O. and A.F.L. union members marched in a body to the Sentinel office and signed...
...short, we certainly admit that advertising and publicity and even contracting could have been hauled more smoothly; however, to overlook the great progress that a small overworked committee has accomplished, and by exaggerating the results of one aspect, to call the whole year's work a failure, as the heading of the editorial does, is not only untrue, but also unfair. Donald L. Bornstein '50 Chairman, Harvard NSA P.C. Committee Chairman, Boston Area P.C.S...