Word: angells
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tense days last week the church folk of Oakland. Los Angeles and 88 other cities on Toyohiko Kagawa's itinerary were in a frenzy of alarmed excitement. As the result of heavy weather the Chichibu Maru with Dr. Kagawa aboard was half a day late reaching San Francisco. Churchmen of the San Francisco area gathered at a large dinner in Oakland, heard speeches and telegrams greeting the guest of honor who was not there. Next morning when the steamship was finally berthed. Dr. Kagawa did not walk down the gangplank and a frantic churchman telegraphed Secretary of Labor Perkins...
...Quarantine Station on Angel Island two Public Health Service doctors confirmed what immigration officials had suspected and what Dr. Kagawa's friends have known for years: he suffers from trachoma. He contracted this highly infectious eye disease during the 14 years he voluntarily spent in the filthiest slums of Kobe, laying a solid foundation for his views as a Christian radical. After 13 operations, Dr. Kagawa has lost the sight of one eye, must use a powerful magnifying glass to read with the other...
Church folk throughout the U. S. began telegraphing Secretary Perkins. The Federal Council of Churches brought Dr. Kagawa's plight to the attention of President Roosevelt. Promptly, on the third day of the good doctor's stay at Angel Island, the President at a Cabinet meeting told Secretaries Hull, Morgenthau and Perkins to get busy. In two hours the State, Treasury and Labor Departments evolved a legal arrangement whereby Japan's No. 1 Christian would get a seven-month visitor's permit on condition that he be constantly accompanied by a doctor or nurse...
...crass, nationalistic realism of today is firmly borne in mind can contemporary dilemmas be understood. It is a mistake to look for idealism as a motive in the world of today, and it is a hideous blunder to let idealism put America in the role of the avenging angel. The bases of wars may be economic, but the consent of the people is won only through appeals to their souls. America must not misread the facts and yield to that common hallucination, the call of destiny. Otherwise this country is likely to undertake another Crusade for Peace, going in half...
...REDUCE WITH MILK," the State of New York has advertised. "If you want to lose weight pleasantly and scientifically, we'll gladly send you the Hollywood booklet: 'The Milky Way.' Diets of Movie Stars." Reduction testimonials are offered by Heather Angel, Marian Marsh, Dorothy...