Word: strengthed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...made this demand, which made all other labor arguments look like something viewed through the wrong end of a telescope, was A.L.P.A. President David Behncke, a suave, self-assured retired pilot who looks about as radical as any Philadelphia Main Liner. Behind him was the combined strength of some 5,000 similar radicals-reserved, well-dressed citizens who own homes in fashionable suburbs and tend to vote the Republican ticket...
...Washington, D.C., Detroit, Indianapolis and St. Louis, and then in 1944 Baptist Torrey Johnson (pastor of Chicago's Midwest Bible Church) organized "Chicagoland" for Christ, quickly took over as a national leader. Today Y.F.C.'s rough estimates-there are no others-put the movement's strength at 300 "units" in the U.S., 200-odd more overseas. Average attendance at rallies: 350. Biggest Y.F.C. mobilization: 70,000 men, women and adolescents at Chicago's Soldier Field last Memorial...
When added to the students in attendance during the fall term, today's total is expected to increase the strength of the College to a post-1943 high of 3000. Nearly two-thirds of this number will be veterans; approximately 490 of the 550 new students registering today, including 110 men who had been admitted but never attended, are ex-servicemen...
...street below the conference room, some 600 anti-Communist students demonstrated with banners denouncing the Moscow Conference suggestion of an Allied trusteeship (maximum five years). Then the Korean police stepped in, impartially raided both the headquarters of the left-wing "Youth's Preparatory Army" (estimated strength 3,000) and of the right-wing "Army" (estimated strength...
...weak executive. De Gaulle had insisted that France needed a stronger administration on the U.S. constitutional model. The same left-wing coalition again insisted that military appropriations be cut 20% in favor of reconstruction funds. De Gaulle had argued that France, in a "tense" world, needed more armed strength...