Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spirited ladies of the Scottish Women's Peace Movement meeting on the other side of town had decided to fusillade him and get him to say something for their cause. Finally, so many telegrams piled up on Sir John's table that he had to interrupt his speech to explain to his audience. Having done so he demanded sarcastically...
...Elmer Schocttle, pianist, and members of the Longy School faculty and the Boston Symphony Orchestra will present an extraordinary program of chamber music. The concert opens with the Duo Concertante for Piano and Clarinet by Weber, the clarinet played by David Glazer. This work is in a traditional three movement form and is notable, from the technical point of view, for the bold use of the upper notes of the clarinet range...
Twenty years ago last week Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer smashed into the U. S. radical movement. On Jan. 2, 1920, Department of Justice agents con verged on radical hangouts and hideouts, rounded up 3,000 suspects the first day, blackened the administration of Woodrow Wilson as charges of injustice, of viola tions of civil liberties, of sluggings, thirddegrees, left a heritage of suspicion of U. S. laws and U. S. courts. The radical movement recovered, but not the political fortunes of wavy-haired, square-jawed A. Mitchell Palmer...
...Lord Irwin made British rule less onerous for India. He acknowledged that India had a Nationalist movement afoot. He was willing to work on a long-term basis, for some measure of self-government-with many safeguards for Britain. He made the British Government's historic statement on Indian home rule: "I am authorized on behalf of His Majesty's Government to state clearly . . . that the natural issue of India's constitutional progress is the attainment of dominion status." When he left India the British press almost unanimously acclaimed him as having saved India from a blood...
Last August, the Primate of Spain, Isidore Cardinal Goma y Tomás, wrote in a pastoral letter: "Why not indicate here that in Nationalist Spain there has not taken place the moral and religious reaction which was hoped for from the nature of the movement and the great trial to which we were subjected by the justice of God? It is painful to note that the fulfillment of the holy commandments of the Law of God and of the Church is not what was to be expected after receiving such a tremendous lesson. There are parishes where hardly...