Word: movements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Commented FORTUNE: "The indignation here seems to be directed specifically at the leadership of the present union movement. Some of it is certainly intended for union rackets. Some of it may be inspired by a feeling that Lewis has overplayed his cards and brought a useful cause into popular disrepute. Some of it may even arise from a belief that Green, in contrast with Lewis, has been too inactive in the service of organized labor...
According to the Cardinal's secretary, Groupers on the continent "made propaganda use" of a laudatory letter which they said was written by Dr. Kinsley but which he could not recall writing. But his condemnation of them rested on theological rather than moral grounds. Wrote he: "The Group Movement is so tainted with indifferentism. i.e., with the error that one religion is as good as another, that no Catholic may join in such a movement so as to take any active part therein or formally to cooperate therewith...
...movement has not hit Harvard...
Seven years ago the British Intelligence Department of the War Office ("The Best in the World") decided to get a line on members of the Friends of the Soviet Union, openly organized in London as a movement opposed to war and Fascism. Knowing how carefully Communists probe the antecedents of anyone they intend to make use of, Intelligence did not risk assigning to the case a professional operative with a past which could come to light. They approached an ordinary stenographer -or rather an exceptionally pretty one- who readily agreed to do her bit for King & Country, joined the Friends...
...labor trouble. National Dollar's women's dresses, once manufactured on the premises, more recently have been supplied by a factory in San Francisco's Chinatown. Chinatown is the only part of labor-minded San Francisco without labor unions. Chinese remember what the old-line labor movement thought of them, are afraid they would be replaced with whites if they were paid the same wages. The best wages of any garment factory in Chinatown have been Joe Shoong's-$13.33 a week...