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...came to live at the dump. Like many members of his new "parish" he found himself a packing case and moved in, sharing his food with those who were worse off. On Sundays he gathered his flock together on the flats for simple services, and when the autumn winds blew cold, he began to build a church...
...Stoughton Hall. It was at first printed in Cambridgeport, but in 1901 rooms were engaged in the Union, and it was there edited and printed until 1915. In the summer of that year, the present building at 14 Plympton street was constructed, and was first occupied in the following autumn...
Downhill. Things had gone from bad to worse for Gandhi, the pacifist, in recent months. India and Pakistan drifted toward war in Kashmir. Religious feelings still ran high from the autumn massacres in the Punjab; Sikh and Hindu refugees demanded revenge against Pakistan, and were forcing Moslems out of their homes. War fever caught on in Pakistan, whose Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan hopefully exclaimed: "Every Pakistani is an atom bomb in himself...
...many a U.S. businessman, at that time, the buyers' market looked no farther away than the next customer (one auto dealer even predicted that by autumn customers would be able to "walk in and buy 'em off the floor"). Economists, with the same instinct that causes flying pigeons to wheel in unison, largely and solemnly agreed on the exact date for the interment of inflation. The recession, they said, would come in the spring. As Barron's financial weekly put it: "The 1947 depression, recession, or shakeout, whichever one calls it, has advanced from a fear...
Meanwhile Jerry Nason hinted in the Boston Globe that Harlow's resignation had not only been forced by poor health, but that "a player revolt of last Autumn was also a factor...