Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...telephoned that he was a junior in Harvard, and that he would be interested in joining Yankee American Action. Two days later, in his room at Lowell House, he told me that he had learned about our movement from Mr. Dennett, the director of Phillips Brooks House, an institution that had offered us one of its rooms for our meetings...
...came to several meetings, punctually whipping out his pencil and notebook. His monumental silence, continued, from meeting to meeting, promised no help to a movement based chiefly on language. We tried to be human towards him, learned to call him by his first name, but we never overcame our repugnance to the notebook...
...Unions are the main liberal force in America today," Harry Bridges, well known labor leader, said last night, as he called upon the American youth movement to join the unions in their struggle to preserve civil liberties and organize labor...
...former Australian seaman linked his deportation proceedings, recently tried before Dean Landis of the Law School, with attempts of industry to crack the union movement and said that in the trial "we were fighting to expose the entire corrupt machine of industry, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the immigration authorities...
Charging that "native born Americans have been deported by the immigration authorities in the Northwest because they are controlled by the lumber barons," Bridges described the attempts of West Coast industry to destroy the union movement...