Word: strengthed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crusade to save civilization. MRA's overriding interest rests not in its feverish adherents so much as in the social elements to which the appeal goes forth. "The Good Road" plays before "invitation" audiences of people with either means or influence. Furthermore, the public figures who lend it the strength of their names include, in addition to chairman Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, both the moneyed such as the New York Stock Exchange's Emil Sehram and the politically entrenched such as Senators Arthur Capper and Alexander Wiley as well as Presidential adviser John R. Steelman...
...Kennon campaign is sweeping the state and gathering the strength of a statewide landslide which will smother the opposition in an avalanche of votes in the primary...
...largest Communist-dominated union in the land. U.E.'s leaders, from big-bellied Al Fitzgerald down, have denounced the law's non-Communist clause with furious fervor, have refused to sign the affidavits. This week the company, on the strength of the NLRB ruling, severed relations with U.E., despite an agreement which runs until April...
...came out into the open to protect Jews from Arab attacks. (This week, near Tel Aviv, Arabs in ambush killed the Haganah district commander, Joshua Globerman.) Jews set up twelve recruiting centers in Palestine. Increased immigration (present limit fixed by the British: 1,500 a month) would increase Jewish strength. The British government considered transferring 16,000 Jews to Palestine from Cyprus before Feb. 1, admitting 10,000 Jews a month to Palestine thereafter. U.S. officials in Germany, Austria and Italy began planning the movement of 6,250 Jewish D.P.s a month, beginning in February. The Jewish Agency for Palestine...
French resistance was of a military and nationalist nature in the North of France, but more political in the Vichy-controlled sector, Bethoin said, then linking this phenomenon with the concentration of present Communist strength in southern France...