Word: tactically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...really want to quit the fields. But Communist squads and the Communist-dominated Chambers of Labor saw to it that the strike did not collapse. In Modena, city workers reinforced the agricultural strikers. Said they: "We have come to help our brothers in the field." A favorite Communist tactic was deliberate dislocation of labor-ordering workers needed desperately in one place to farms where there was no work for them...
Mississippi tried a new racial tactic. In last week's Democratic primaries, prospective voters could be required, under a state law passed last March, to swear their faith in "party principles." In Mississippi, Democratic party principles not only mean white supremacy, but include opposition to federal antilynching, anti-poll-tax and fair employment practices laws. The new law was frankly designed to keep Negroes from voting...
...between U.S. and British moviemakers came right out into the open. A fleet of taxicabs toured Brussels bearing pennants which tersely advised: SEE A GOOD BRITISH FILM. Americans, whose films occupy three out of four of the city's theaters, had the debatable taste to denounce this British tactic as bad taste...
...Soviet press's ideological approach to the news takes considerable getting used to. Their press is not a people's press, although it claims to be. It is a party press. The Communist Party owns it, controls it, and uses it both as a weapon and a tactic...
...ground-floor nucleus will make or break its great chance to capture mass support tomorrow by the means it devises to implement its ideals. From the current program embracing labor rights, federal aid to education, civil liberties, and universal military training two sorts of approach can develop: the agitation tactic which alienates the men it should most woo simply because of what it is (making smalltime political capital from colossal issues) or the militant but intelligent approach which seeks to offer something concrete to the solution of actual problems. Choosing the latter will spell a busy and worthwhile career...