Word: movements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...picture, you louse. You have not been a workingman for 30 years. Either stop your movement against a progressive action or you will not only be killed but tortured to make you human." This remarkable threat, scrawled anonymously on the stationery of a Houston, Tex. hotel, was received in Washington last week by John P. Frey, pedantic president of A. F. of L.'s Metal Trades Department and angriest Labor foe of John L. Lewis' C. I. O. Mr. Frey boldly announced that he would go right ahead with his plan, to head up a mass meeting...
...least four-fifths of the graduate students are sprinkled at random about Cambridge and are forced to dine at such expensive places as Lincoln's Inn. Although several members of the faculty are well informed of this resolution, a part of a vast movement among graduates for cooperation in extra-curricular activities, petitions will be circulated for formal presentation to the authorities...
...highlight of the whole exhibit is several rare editions of the "Compleat Angler", by one Izsak Walton. This 17th century writer had much to do with making fishing a sport rather than an the occupation, and as such he has become the father of a movement which in the spring of the year lures thousands to cast and dream of pairoueaint Walton...
...After a through investigation of the subject, it is the opinion of the Student Council that Drs. Sweezy and Walsh were not dismissed for their political beliefs or their affiliations with the labor movement. Of course the Council realizes that in a dynamic subject such as Economics it is difficult for one man to judge another without considering his fundamental social beliefs, but despite this factor, it seems that the senior members of the Economics Department and the Administration made their decision purely on the comparative ability...
Said President Conant in accepting: "To me' it is significant and important that the memorial movement originated among students under his regime...