Word: blind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prone to regard Boston journals as witless panders to the rabble. In its blissful if irritating myopia, youth can scarcely appreciate the ripe sagacity which directs the composition of news and editorials in the great world. But here the adolescent is appealed to in familiar terms. Only the purposeful blind can fail to detect in this piece that genteel sense of humor, that same mellow perspective which graced the manipulation of Captain Armstrong's publicity...
...years, skipped Germany just before Adolf Hitler seized the powers of Dictator. Last week Dr. Ludwig sailed into Manhattan on the sleek French liner Paris. With an air of detachment proper in so prosperous an exile as himself he warned Jews and other citizens of the world not to blind themselves to the fact that "Hitler suits the German character. . . . What is going on there now is not the forcible rule of but a single party. It is rather the overwhelming majority of the nation which jubilantly accepts [Hitler's] principles and is eager to further and uphold them...
...give you the money but we can't make you borrow it from us. ... We're more liberal than any lender on a large scale since the beginning of the world but we're not dropping taxpayers' money into the hat of a blind...
...Leading candidates were Rex Martin, Wartime flyer, onetime secretary to Illinois' Representative Keller; Major J. Carroll Cone, Wartime flyer, good friend and campaign helper of Arkansas' Senator Robinson; and Eugene L. Vidal, West Pointer, longtime airline executive. "Gene" Vidal is son-in-law of Oklahoma's blind Senator Gore. Early in the game he got directly to Presi dent Roosevelt, impressed him with his knowledge and ability. Last week, reputedly at the President's insistence, "Gene" Vidal became civil aviation's head man in the newly created job of Director of Aeronautics. Airplane manufacturers...
...tuberculous, half-blind Japanese who used to be a Manhattan butler is not only Japan's greatest Christian but one revered all over the Christian world. He is Toyohiko Kagawa, founder of a Kingdom of God movement which was to Christianize 1,000,000 Japanese by this year and bring Japan's Christian churches together in a powerful campaign for social justice. Last week U. S. churchmen were discussing reports from Japan that the Kingdom of God is functioning none too well, that its leader has left...