Word: benediction
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...decisive battles of the Revolution. Burgoyne had come south from Canada in the summer of 1777 in an attempt to isolate New England by occupying the Hudson Valley; his 5,000 British and German troops were badly mauled by Americans led by Benedict Arnold on Oct. 7; ten days later, surrounded by 20,000 revolutionary soldiers under General Horatio Gates, they laid down their arms...
Wallach has been attempting to prove, for the past two weeks, that St. Benedict's Center, headed by Father Feeney, has no right to GI Bill funds. According to the State Department of Education, an educational institution must meet four criteria for certification. Wallach claims that St. Benedict's fails in one of these--the criterion of academic fitness of its teaching staff...
...Lose or Choose. Australia's new Prime Minister would be the Liberals' Robert Gordon Menzies, 55, an urbane lawyer and veteran politician. Out of government leadership and onto the Opposition bench goes Labor's Joseph Benedict Chifley, 64, a dignified, pipe-smoking former locomotive engineer with a talent for playing the ponies (Australia is a horse-happy land...
...membership also voted to empower the executive board to approve a resolution supporting the brief of Richard Wallach '49 1L to the State Commission on Education attacking St. Benedict's Center...
Wallach contends that Father Feeney's St. Benedict's Center fails to meet one of these criteria, the academic fitness of the teaching staff. He termed Father Feeney last night "a local religious version of George Sylvester Viereck and Father Coughlin before he saw his errors...