Word: candidates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week word reached the U. S. of Publisher Agnelli's latest exploit. He equipped every Stampa reporter, at home and abroad, with a small, high-powered candid camera. Henceforth Stampa newshawks will be expected to snap everything newsworthy they see, indoors or out, without fussing with flashlights...
...tickets), Mary A. Bennett (stable brooms), R. G. Lawrie, Ltd. (bagpipes) and Merryweather & Sons, Ltd. (fire engines). Cars His Majesty buys from The Daimler Co., Ltd., rents additional cars from Daimler Hire, Ltd., sells old equipages to The Car Mart, Ltd.-all three motor firms holding royal warrants. Less candid are Their Majesties' little extravagances and their sale of whatnots. Thus Her Majesty probably spends more pounds buying Imperial Russian enamel and ikons from Wartski & Co. on Regent Street than on any other self-indulgence. But the fawning Messrs. Wartski hold no royal warrant, even though they have also...
...their urge to praise, Italian critics picked on a rousing wine song, a melodic love duet, a last-act intermezzo. No one was candid enough to say that Mascagni had his one brief inspiration 45 years ago when he was an obscure, half-nourished piano-teacher. Until then his way had been consistently hard. His father, a baker, disowned him because he refused to be a lawyer. An uncle helped him to get into a musical conservatory. But Mascagni rebelled against the rules, struck out for himself. He toured as conductor of a fourth-rate opera company until he married...
...think those who propose the new would do better if they were more candid. What they really are doing is asking us to give up many of our individual liberties in exchange for something which they call security. For myself, I accept the historical definition of liberty. Liberty means immunity from compulsion by the state. Patrick Henry said 'Give me liberty or give me death.' He did not say 'Give me economic security or give me death.' He did not say 'Give me forty dollars a month after I am 65 or give me death...
...printed report is candid in recording and appraising the facts. The facts are significant. Of the 150,000 ministers in question 50% have had neither college nor seminary training. 18% have had college training only; 12% have had seminary training only. This leaves only 20% of the Protestant ministers in North America, who have had a college and post-graduate divinity school course...