Word: movements
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beyond the resentment which all Americans will feel when they read of the activities of the Yankee-American. Action, Harvard has an additional and more personal grudge against the "Red Shirts." For Harvard has been imposed upon, it has been unwittingly implicated in an insidious and vicious movement with which it has not the slightest sympathy. The racial and religious intolerance evidenced by "Yankee-American" James's blasts against the Irish Catholics, the reactionary demand for limited suffrage, the ridiculous accusations against Harvard's own Professor Heinrich Bruening--all this is a far cry from the liberalism for which Harvard...
...Allied victory might restore monarchy to what the peace treaty left of Germany. A monarchist coup in Germany and a subsequent deal with the Allies certainly would. Gossip in The Hague has it that Princess Hermine's estate in Silesia is the centre of a monarchist movement...
Last week a new movement was afoot: special "paternity furloughs" for soldiers. President Fernand Boverat of the French League Against Depopulation warned recently that unless more furloughs are given, French children born in 1940 may number only some 450,000. Le Populaire asked: "Will the duration of this furlough be the same for all? A captain gets two or three rations, a colonel gets more. Will officers have a longer leave? If a soldier can accomplish his work in four days, will it be considered that his colonel must expend more effort...
...great King seeks battle. He prefers to attack. In this, four elements predominate-speed of movement, surprise, concentration of forces at a decisive point, and thrust into flank and rear...
...Adams wrote that "hardly any college seems free of the taint" of bolshevism; and deploring this "subversive" tendency, she provided that her gift not be used by universities allowing this movement. One-half the estate was to be divided by M. I. T. and by the Harvard Medical School for deserving students...