Word: attendent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cabinet took to the radio. Rev. Charles Edward Coughlin took to the radio. Mrs. Roosevelt took to pencil and paper. The President said he was "too busy" for any observance, except to attend evensong at Washington Cathedral. Thus last week Franklin Delano Roosevelt completed his second year as President...
...public and from his more conservative but less gifted colleagues, a certain suspicion and disdain. Socially ambitious, he has never been accepted in Washington society's inner circle. But many a Washingtonian, including members of the Gridiron Club whom he entertains every year, is glad to attend the large and elaborate dinners he gives in his home on swank Sheridan Circle. Sentimental, warmhearted, likable, democratic, he is president of Washington's Alfalfa Club (men's dining), onetime president of the Washington Community Chest. Still frail in health, his only hobby is collecting first editions, rare copies, manuscripts...
...Customers are photographed coming out of Jewish shops. Placards announcing 'Jews not wanted' are displayed in cafés and restaurants. 'Jewish students enter here at their own risk,' reads a notice at the door of the Technical School. Jews cannot attend the theatre, opera or motion pictures without risk of insult. Oldtime friends are afraid to visit or greet them in the street. Nowhere else are they so cut off from normal life or subjected to such economic boycott and social ostracism...
...formed the first Sunday School. His purpose was to keep children off the streets while teaching them their letters, "the truths of the gospel" and "moral restraint." As time passed a further objective appeared-to lead children into church membership. Today in the U. S., 21,038,526 persons attend Sunday School, under the guidance of 2,167,848 officers and teachers in 184,686 churches. Only 17 small denominations, such as the Two-Seed-in-the-Spirit Predestinarian Baptists, do not run Sunday Schools...
There are only eight other Pirsch aerial ladder and water tower trucks in existence, and Chief Herman E. Gutheim has invited the chiefs of neighboring fire departments to attend a demonstration of his new acquisition on Saturday...