Word: beginnings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After lunch the governors discussed campaign strategy, agreed tentatively to spend the next two months planning and vacationing, begin campaigning in September. Then, sure enough, it rained...
Then the escape hatch closed. In a droning Pentagon press conference last week, Secretary of the Army Kenneth Royall announced that registration for the draft would begin the third week of August, the first inductions probably in October. By November the induction rate will be stepped up to 30,000 a month, will pull in an estimated 250,000 draftees before next July. Including 18-year-old volunteers and regular enlistments, the Army hopes to be up to 790,000 men by then, the bulk of them organized into a striking force of twelve Regular Army divisions and six National...
...week a call was issued to U.S. churches: on Sunday Aug. 22 they were asked to ring their bells once each hour from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. The bells will summon Christians to prayer. On that day, in the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, 450 Christian men & women delegates will begin a meeting that has been called the most significant occasion since the Protestant Reformation-the first Assembly of the World Council of Churches...
During the first half of his 61 years, Charles Allen Ward worked the waterfronts of China, mined gold in Alaska, fought with Pancho Villa in Mexico. But his career as a businessman did not really begin until he had served time in Leavenworth on a narcotics charge. Allen's cellmate (income-tax evasion) was Herbert Huse Bigelow, head of St. Paul's Brown & Bigelow (calendars, other advertising novelties). Bigelow thought Ward was "made of good clay," asked him what job he wanted with the company when he got out of stir. "Your job, H.H.," said Ward. Replied...
John L.'s .miners were ready to begin their ten-day vacation; their present contract with the mine operators expired on July 1. Meanwhile the operators' spokesman, Ezra Van Horn, had filed suits which froze the miners' welfare and pension fund and prevented its distribution. If the contract were not signed, or the pension fund not unfrozen, John L.'s miners might not come back to work on July...