Word: brightnesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...peculiarity is that he recognizes himself as God. Behind Major J. ("Father") Divine rode a squadron of his women cultists straddling big brewery horses. Humbler worshipers followed in cars, trucks and afoot, in a line that stretched back through the hot streets almost a mile. "PEACE IS WONDERFUL!" shouted bright placards. "PEACE! PEACE!" Occasion for this celebration was a real-estate deal...
...outset of the Japanese invasion of China, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek saw that he had millions of men who might line up the sights of a rifle but only thousands who could read a newspaper. Realizing that China would be in graver need of bright men after than brave men during the war, he requested students to stay in school and college. Consequently, in China's 13 U. S.-aided colleges,* enrollment remained within 1,800 of normal capacity. In the U. S. last week, the National Emergency Committee for Christian Colleges in China announced that an emergency fund...
Cowboy from Brooklyn (Warner Bros.) plots with hypnotism and not a little good fun the course of a crooner (Dick Powell) for whom a bright future beckons in cinema horse opera if only he can learn to love horses...
...making plates. Mr. Perry entered the publishing business as an attorney for the James G. Scripps papers in the Northwest. Later he became national counsel for the United Press Associations, the Scripps Newspapers and the Newspaper Enterprise Association. Publisher Perry owns four dailies in Florida† and the bright Reading, Pa. Times. He has made money in Florida real estate...
...clock of civilization can be turned back by burning libraries, by exiling scientists, artists, musicians, writers and teachers, by dispersing universities and by censoring news and literature and art, an added burden is placed upon those countries where the torch of free thought and free learning still burns bright. If the fires of freedom and civil liberties burn low in other lands, they must be made brighter...