Word: movements
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many an alarmed adult considers Youth brash, bad-mannered, ignorant and Red. Some even think that Youth is organized like a labor union, that Youth is a Movement. Last week grown-ups who think these things were able to get themselves into quite a stew over the goings-on of the biggest and most conglomerate of youth organizations, the American Youth Congress. Hitchhiking, riding jalopies, trains, busses, 482 delegates, black & white, representing 299 local and national groups, assembled in College Camp, Wis. for A. Y. C.'s sixth annual convention...
Collapse. All of them-delegates, newsmen, wise guys-understood politics thoroughly. The question was: Did they understand a political movement? They shied off like wise guys, sneering: "Willkie, the Nine-Minute Wonder," "Hopson's Choice." They gave themselves comforting reasons for his upsurge-Eastern seaboard hysteria, Wall Street propaganda, utilities propaganda-explained away the galleryites as paid Wall Street stooges, explained away the telegrams by knowing references to utility tactics in fighting the Wheeler-Rayburn Holding Company...
...Generalissimo remains the symbol of unity, idol of the people, leader of the Army-and if anything happened to him, China's morale, which is her most precious asset, would crumble. Or if any hurt should come to his fragile, energetic, moral wife, whose New Life Movement supplied China with its backbone of courage and kept it stiffened from 1937 to 1940, the result would be almost as serious...
Aside from some accident to the Chiangs the Japanese hope that the strong anti-Communist group in Chungking will become synonymous with a peace movement, that the old politicians will become traitors or appeasers-in short that the pattern of France will be repeated...
Dean De Wolfe, who helped spark the Episcopalians' Forward Movement, may well make the cathedral's work measure up to the grandeur of its fabric. In twelve years he swelled the congregation of small St. Andrew's Church, Kansas City, from 90 to 1,100, housed in a fine new, debt-free Gothic church. His Low-Church parish in Houston feared he might be too High-Church when he went there in 1934. But friendly, straightforward Dr. De Wolfe soon had them genuflecting and liking it. Says he: "I'm not interested in high...