Word: manifestos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Valera's activities. . . . Under no circumstances whatever will we listen to the rattling of the sabre or, for that matter, to the cooing of the dove where the integrity of Ulster is concerned. . . . Any attempt to meet Mr. de Valera's manifesto would lead to civil...
Heavily subsidized by the State, the semi-official French news agency Havas, seldom plays big what the Cabinet wants played small. Last week Havas carried on its wires a manifesto issued in dramatic circumstances by the 30-year-old Comte de Paris, son of the 64-year-old Bourbon- Orléans pretender, the Due de Guise...
Monseigneur, whom the journalists later toasted in champagne with the cry "To the restoration of France!" handed them a manifesto. It argued that, while for weak France to have tried "to bluff" and refuse to sign the "Munich capitulation" would have been "as criminal as war itself," nevertheless this "humiliation that has no precedent in our history" must be redressed by strengthening France, and this required neither policies of the Right nor Left but unity under a constitutional monarch...
Alarmed at Progressive Education's rapid spread, a handful of educational traditionalists, including Professor Bagley, last February organized a group called the Essentialists, issued a manifesto. Their indictment : the new movement has made U. S. education "effeminate," has made U. S. children inferior spellers and readers. Their proposal: more attention to discipline, systematic work, "essentials" (such as the 3 Rs). This platform raised a cheer here and there, but the Essentialists have not yet slowed up the Progressive marcb...
...attention to music in the rural schools, 4) to help the growth of orchestral music 5) to encourage mass singing, 6) to further the observance of American Music Year (1938). "At a time when the whole world the seems to have gone mad," admonished the Federation's Chicago manifesto, "it particularly behooves such organizations as ours to try to keep sane...