Word: common
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Last week in Manhattan some 300 delegates assembled in a Woman's Centennial Congress to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the struggle. It was a strange, emotional gathering, in which common-sensical and acute analyses of woman's position in the modern world contrasted with a vague program of action. It began with foreign delegates reporting on the status of women and of the women's movement under totalitarianism. It ended, after about 20 hours of speechmaking and report-reading, with a Declaration of Purpose: ". . . to use our freedom to support, defend and preserve the Constitution...
...more German troops rolled into Rumania this week, there were rumors that the Chief of the Supreme Command of the German Armed Forces, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, himself, was on the way. But Premier Antonescu had already made a last, desperate effort to unite his country behind a common cause. In the snow-swept town of Alba Iulia, in what was left of Rumanian Transylvania, he brought stirring news to 100,000 cheering Guardists, soldiers and civilians. "I went to Berlin and Rome for Transylvanians," said Premier Antonescu, then quoted the Führer's answer: "On your shoulders...
...Amalgamated Engineers Union met in Southport to vote whether to call a nationwide strike of 1,500,000 construction laborers. The issue was a threepence-an-hour wage increase. If the strike motion carried, it might mean the end of the peaceful building of the common man's Britain. After four hours of argument a 48-year-old grey-haired Welshman named Owen Jenkins stood up. Owen Jenkins said he had two sons in the service. "Could I face my boys if they came back, looked me in the eyes and said to me: 'You voted...
Demagogues and despots are alike the foes of the common weal. But between them is the possibility of democratic leaders democratically chosen and democratically responsible to the community they serve...
...session, the Executive Committee called a meeting for Monday evening in the Kirkland House Common Room to elect next year's officers and to choose delegates to be sent to the national convention which will be held in New York City during Christmas vacation...