Word: alterations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Green promptly telegraphed his willingness to meet with the C. I. O. chairman, but added that he lacked authority to alter the Executive Council's policy...
...Curley's stronghold, Boston, won it and the State by a plurality that was just about the number of votes O'Brien took from Curley. When he takes the Senate seat now held by Marcus Coolidge he will subtract only one from the Democratic majority, but will alter the balance of brainpower considerably...
...American Congress with this observation: "State craft has utterly failed to abolish war, and Christianity must come to the rescue or civilization and the church will perish from the earth!'' Bishop Irving Peake Johnson of Colorado disagreed. Said he: "It is impossible for the church to alter political systems. . . . The church exists to produce righteous people and that is a Herculean task." Gloomily observed Chicago's Bishop George Craig Stewart, host to the Congress: "A moral collapse is engulfing mankind . . . unification of Christian forces alone will destroy the enemies of civilization." The Congress closed day after...
...details of Gruenewald's life. Readers of Professor Burkhard's newest and most thorough study of the artist will find that he too has to admit defeat on this issue. But the author assembles and weighs wisely whatever evidence has been unearthed concerning the painter of the Isenheim Alter; shows that his name was not actually Gruenewald but Gothart, that he studied and lived in the Rhine-Main region of Franconia, that he was a court painter for two archbishops of Mainz; that he feld some sympathy with Luther, but remained a Catholic; that he died, like Albrecht Duerer...
Lawyer McGranaghan believed that Chiropractor McGranaghan's license to practice chiropractic permitted him to do practically everything to the human body except dose it with drugs or alter it by major surgery. To establish this belief in law, Chiropractor McGranaghan, having pretended he was sick, sued another, friendly chiropractor, Dora Berger, for refusing to give him anything more than spinal adjustment within the letter of the law. Chiropractor Berger behaved properly, decided the court, ruling against Chiropractor-Patient McGranaghan. Lawyer McGranaghan appealed...