Word: movements
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Twenty years ago last week Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer smashed into the U. S. radical movement. On Jan. 2, 1920, Department of Justice agents converged on radical hangouts and hideouts, rounded up 3,000 suspects the first day, blackened the administration of Woodrow Wilson as charges of injustice, of violations of civil liberties, of sluggings, third-degrees, left a heritage of suspicion of U. S. laws and U. S. courts. The radical movement recovered, but not the political fortunes of wavy-haired, square-jawed A. Mitchell Palmer...
...fact that there was a slight movement of the foundations of the second largest of the buildings in the House system was disclosed four years age when steady pressure caused a break in a number of water mains under the basement...
...principal weaknesses of the peace forces in 1916-17 was the lack of a concerted national organization fighting for peace. Is the Harvard Student Union to forget the lesson of the Last War and begin a movement to disrupt the outstanding national progressive peace group of the day? William Rossmoore '40 Member of the Harvard Delegation to the ASU Convention...
Cordell Hull has not only sharply declined, in most specific terms, to sanction any movement designed to make him a candidate; he has stated he will refuse to run. But the wise men know that Mr. Hull's reluctance can be overcome and when that will be-when his trade agreement program is safely in harbor. Solemnly all Washington admits that if Mr. Hull today were to be given his choice of the Presidency or the success of his program, he would unhesitatingly choose the latter. No higher tribute could be paid a U. S. politician in an election...
...Here the Russians set up machine-gun nests in a commanding position to attack. . . . One hundred Finns sneaked up on the Russian position and opened fire before the Russians knew they were there. . . . While these 100 Finns kept the Russians occupied from the front, 100 more made a flanking movement uphill on both sides of the Russians and the circle of Finns poured hell into the enemy. ... It was a half-hour slaughter, with unceasing machine-gun, rifle and grenade fire. Then it stopped as suddenly as it began. ... In ten minutes all the Finns had filtered back with their...