Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Missouri Days. In Mr. President Truman tells-several times-the story of his childhood, youth and career. It is easy to see where his self-confidence comes from. He did not aim high in politics, but he was, in the main, successful in what he did, and he was respected by the people whom he respected. He makes an apparently straightforward story of his long relationship with Boss T. J. Pendergast of Kansas City. His first contact with Pendergast, who was "interested in county patronage and county purchases," came after Truman was elected Presiding Judge of the Jackson County Court...
Bishop to Power? Today, 80 priests are enrolled at Herrera's school, and many more, particularly of the post-revolution clergy, are gripped by his grand aim to swamp evil "with a flood of good." Few of them can match the bishop's activity. A year ago, he was in Mexico contacting Spanish refugees. Later, in Portugal, he conferred with the pretender to the Spanish throne. Don Juan, and the exiled onetime leader of Spain's Catholic party, Gil Robles. Last month he was off to Rome, where the Pope received him twice. This week...
Using his Iowa broadcasts as an example, Nichols convinced other congregations that a joint national radio program would bring in converts without whittling away any congregation's local autonomy. Explains Nichols: "The primary interest of the Churches of Christ is converting people." Aim by 1962: 1,000 new congregations...
...Teague bill, in fact, would effectively limit the type of education a veteran could receive. This is far different from the aim of the first G.I. Bill, which was to make available to veterans funds enough to cover the cost of whatever kind of education they wished. This was an excellent idea, and the possibility of dishonesty is no reason for abandoning...
White side rambled on. A corpulent gentleman and other of Winner's attorneys, Hubert C. Thompson kept bustling up to aim and whisphering advice. A minister in he audience fell asleep. Shubow now took over and rehashed the defence's arguments. He finished at 1 p.m. when Donahue adjourned the court for an hour...