Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gabrielson and the rest of the strategy committee endorsed the chairman's words. But two facts stood in the way of translating the words into an undeviating policy. Republican policy in 1950 will be made by the party's congressional leaders who did not attend the Chicago meeting. And few politicians believe that Republicans can recapture the decisive votes of the nation's political independents with a program of indiscriminate opposition...
...answer was quick in coming, and it was made in tones as sharp and ringing as the clang of a plowshare on granite. When Leader Kline rose up to speak, in the gilt-&-crystal ballroom of Chicago's Stevens hotel, the 3,500 listeners burst into a roaring cheer: "Two bits, four bits, six bits, a dollar! Everybody for the Farm Bureau stand up and holler-Yeah!" They cheered again when he lambasted Charlie Brannan's plan: "This is the road to tyranny . . . The people who are supporting this plan are either very dumb or they...
...wrapped and sealed their own packages for relatives in the Old Country, or for old acquaintances from old vacation trips, or for strangers whose names they had got by chance. A portly gentleman on Boston's Beacon Hill sent off a consignment of Havana cigars to Britain. In Chicago Mrs. Herman Pierce was preparing a Christmas parcel for the daughter of her late father's niece in Germany. Mrs. Pierce and her factory-worker husband were not well off. But "we can do without a little," she explained, "to help them a lot. We're all here...
...that it knows as much about drunkenness as any other organization. It maintains that evangelism can reach into depths of degradation which psychiatry cannot touch. Says Captain Tom Crocker, onetime alcoholic and drug addict who is now in command of the army's famed Harbor Light corps in Chicago: "Overcoming drunkenness is a matter of prayer from beginning to end. God is the deciding factor. The job is too overwhelming to be done by human means alone." With evangelism goes fellowship. Misery can find company in decent surroundings along Skid...
Unto the Least of These. This week, with faith and patience, the army still marched on. In New York, Chicago, Peoria, San Francisco, Omaha, Richmond, Los Angeles-all over the U.S. and half around the world-tambourines rattled and brass bells tinkled in the annual Christmas campaign. Americans dropped pennies, nickels and dimes by the millions into Salvation Army kettles. The money would be used to buy 300,000 Christmas dinners for the down & out, 450,000 presents for children, packages for the aged, the poor in hospitals, and the inmates of jails...