Word: beene
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In Britain, the offer kicked up less excitement than such a proposal would make in the U.S. Since 1944 many English and Welsh church schools, Catholic and non-Catholic, have been receiving government financial aid, to keep them up to the standards prescribed by the Ministry of Education in its...
Calvinist Theologian Emil Brunner of Switzerland knows that "Christianity and Civilization" is a big subject. He does not even believe that there has ever been such a thing as a Christian civilization. "What is usually called by that name," he says, "is a compromise between Christian and non-Christian forces...
When globe-trotting Publisher Roy Wilson Howard went to Moscow in 1936 to interview Joseph Stalin he also met a bearded, scholarly American named Angus Ward, then U.S. consul in Moscow. He heard of him no more until last October, when he read that Ward, by then U.S. consul in...
Recalling that Teddy Roosevelt sent warships to Tangier in 1904 to rescue a U.S. citizen named Ion Perdicaris (who had been kidnaped by a Moroccan bandit named Raisuli), La Moore quoted T.R.'s famed ultimatum to the Bey of Tangier: "Perdicaris alive-or Raisuli dead."*Lashing out at the...
Hearst's Heald-American had been on the street only a few minutes before Cook County Jail Superintendent Chester L. Fordney cried: "The picture is a fake!"