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That night U. S. Minister Boaz Walton Long, backed by the rest of the diplomatic corps, sent General Somoza a round-robin petition to cease firing. He agreed. Both sides kept their strategic positions but began dickering on a compromise candidate for next President of Nicaragua...
...Among the 85: Southern Methodist Bishops William Newman Ainsworth, Hiram Abiff Boaz, Hoyt McWhorter Dobbs, Arthur James Moore, John Monroe Moore, A. Frank Smith; Presbyterians William Hiram Foulkes of Newark, N. J., Joseph Richard Sizoo of Washington, D. C.; Congregationalists S. Parkes Cadman of Brooklyn, James Gordon Gilkey of Springfield, Mass.; Methodists Ralph Eugene Diffendorfer and Ralph Washington Sockman of Manhattan; President Ivan Lee Holt of the Federal Council of Churches...
...year-old fort which serves as the governor's mansion, Acting Governor Benjamin J. Horton was lunching with Deputy NRAdministrator Boaz Walton Long. NRAdministrator Long stepped to the window, took one look at the crowd and at the tack-strewn streets, decided to postpone his inspection tour of the island. Colonel Francis Riggs, chief of the Puerto Rican police, came bumping into San Juan from Rio Piedras with 23 punctures. "This is anarchy!" he cried...
...epic tale of a lonely girl working in dusty grainfields is the story of Ruth. One of the most dramatic and colorful scenes in all literature is the description of her entering the threshing room at night, creeping to where the mighty farmer Boaz lay drunken on a pile of corn, softly snuggling herself to sleep at his feet. Question: Would a child suspect evil...
...Boaz is in charge of the department of anthropology at Columbia, and is curator of ethnology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. He has spent much time with the Esquimaux in Baffin's Bay, and the Indians in British Columbia and Southern Alaska, as well as throughout the entire Pacific Coast. Besides having written extensively on these particular regions, and on various general questions of anthropology, Dr. Boaz was director of the Morris Jessup expedition to Behring Strait, which was engaged for six years in the study of the peoples of Northeastern Asia and Northwestern America...