Word: movements
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Birkhead, who believes that the No Foreign War Committee has the odors of "a very dangerous movement," has a trained nose for such dangerous odors. Five years ago he returned from a trip to Germany with a list of Nazi sympathizers in the U. S., supplied him by a boastful Nazi. Dr. Birkhead called on some of the men on the list (which included Gerald Winrod, the Kansas messiah; William Dudley Pelley, head of the Fascist Silver Shirts; Harry Jung of Chicago; Colonel E. N. Sanctuary of New York), heard their arguments, and made up his mind that something nasty...
...Atlantic Fleet will have 125 vessels, led by three old battleships (New York, Arkansas and Texas), will get more strength, Frank Knox said, as new warships are put into commission. How many or what types, he would not say. The Navy has decided that the less said about movement and assignment of men-of-war the better...
...ideas he taught spread fast. Within six months after Birkenhead there were 80,000 scouts in Britain. The movement spread abroad as well. In 1910 the Boy Scouts of America were organized in a combination of such existing groups as Ernest Thompson Seton's Indians and Daniel Carter Beard's Sons of Daniel Boone. At the Third World Jamboree in 1929 Sir Robert Baden-Powell, Chief of the Boy Scouts of the World, met with 50,000 scouts from 73 countries. That year raised to the peerage for his work, Baron Baden-Powell of Gilwell had built...
Back on the masthead went Founder Wright's long-lapsed slogan: "Farmers, Write for Your Paper." Back came Founder Wright's crusading policy. Prairie Farmer has had a hand in every important agricultural movement of the last 31 years, including the Grange (national farmers' fraternity), AAA, dairy cooperatives. From 40,000 readers in 1909, Editor Butler has built up its circulation...
...erudite, 59-year-old Dr. William Temple, Archbishop of York. Son of an Archbishop of Canterbury. Dr. Temple was an Oxford don of philosophy at 23, a headmaster at 29, a bishop at 39, an archbishop at 47. A famed theologian and an ardent exponent of the ecumenical (interchurch) movement, he is likely to be first president of the still-organizing World Council of Churches. Said he at the conference...