Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...formal motion to recess, which requires a vote and cannot be defeated by a single objector, he got the House away to dinner and a three-day respite from Illinois' Church. On Monday, when the House reconvened, Agriculture Committee Chairman Marvin Jones brought up his Farm Bill. This meant that the House at last really had some business to attend to-and that Ralph Edwin Church's private parade in the U. S. headlines was completely finished...
...Advanced through second reading the Coal Royalties Bill whereby His Majesty's Government are to acquire on July 1, 1942 upon payment of $330,000,000 all coal in the United Kingdom (TIME...
...Leslie Howard of Rhode Island State College. Later he turned his molds and his methods over to Dr. Seifriz. Ever since his student days at Johns Hopkins and in England, Germany, Switzerland and France, William Seifriz had hankered for generous supplies of "naked proto-plasm." Physarum polycephalum filled the bill. In a lyrical moment Dr. Seifriz called it a "great big glorious handful...
Among numerous U. S. ministers who preach by radio, Methodist Dr. William Leroy ("Bill") Stidger of Boston is notable, if only because he is a commercial broadcaster. Five days a week, on a New England network, he delivers a four-minute talk on a devotional program which plugs Fleischmann's Yeast. In common with many of his colleagues, Dr. Stidger believes that radio is valuable to religion. This week he did something practical about it. He instituted a course in radio preaching at Boston University School of Theology, where he is professor of homiletics...
Famed among ministers as the man who suggested to Sinclair Lewis that he write a book about a minister, helped him gather material, and was appalled by the outcome, Elmer Gantry-Bill Stidger is big, baldish, hearty in the manner of preachers who did Y. M. C. A. work in the War. In the early days of radio he broadcast news from Detroit and still says: "I consider myself a reporter, not a preacher. The earliest Christians were reporters who simply told to others what they saw, heard and experienced, and that is what I try to do." Currently...