Word: ands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Through street-corner collections, donations, special campaigns, and participation in some Community Chests, the army in the U.S. takes in some $25 million a year. Of that amount, it spends more than $18 million on the welfare of men, women & children without regard for race, creed and color. With only...
The army's war on human misery in the U.S. is directed from an up-to-date, $2,500,000, twelve-story building on Manhattan's brash and busy 14th Street which houses both the army's Eastern Territorial and National headquarters. There, a tall, grave, businesslike...
Out of the Gutter. The fighting is sharpest in the streets and in city slums, in small, crowded buildings marked by neon-lighted crosses in the midst of dark Skid Rows. The army regards such positions as its most important beachheads in the Devil's territory. Captains Olive McKeown...
The little auditorium was heavy with the odors of whisky breaths and unwashed bodies. Eyes-cunning, defiant, haunted, hopeless, anguished and apathetic-fixed on the platform where McKeown and Larder sat surrounded by a small band of soldiers and converts.
Was there anything salvageable in such wreckage? William Booth had told his followers: "We are moral scavengers netting the very sewers." A grey, wiry little man in the army's uniform stood up to preach. Twenty years before, he told his audience, he had crawled out of the gutter...