Word: childing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Warsaw. "Children with staring eyes . . . led blindly away as if pursued by a ghost. . . . The picture of corpses still stands before my eyes. One little hand detached from a corpse ... a child's brains bashed on the wall...
...Washington, White House Secretary Stephen T. Early said for the record : 1) that in war the press is a seasoned veteran and radio an untried rookie, and 2) that if radio proved itself a "good child," well-mannered, etc., it would be left to itself; but if it turned out to be a bad one, the Government disposition would be to "teach it some manners." Under the Federal Communications Act the President could, in any national emergency or merely to safeguard U. S. neutrality, shut down any or all radio stations. Already the President had proclaimed U. S. neutrality...
...separate some of the sheepish facts from the goatish fictions, to lift some of the fogs, prune some of the poison ivy out of the laurels. With unhurried, neutral efficiency she shows how this sensitive son of an army captain and a penny-pinching peasant became first a debauched child poet, then a "wild boy" whose Russia was all Europe, then a castaway...
Friday, two days before their country declared war on Germany, they were ready. In the grey morning they marched to school, gathered for final instructions. Not knowing where he was going (each school was to take the first free train out), each child had a postcard, to be sent home when he arrived at his billet. On his clothes was sewn his name and address. A Mr. Brown's four children, aged 4 to 11, marched with their names printed in big letters on their backs. From London and 28 other cities, all through last weekend and this week...
...harmony. Catholic Missionary Edward L. Stephens asserted that workers have a duty to become members of "free unions, independent of companies, and guided by Christian principles of charity and justice." Rabbi Robert Gordis called upon the Church to "attack specific evils by urging specific remedies. Such problems as child labor, cooperatives, housing, minimum wages, are examples . . . where the Church should . . . strive to galvanize its membership into action." Methodist Episcopal Bishop Francis J. McConnell suggested that the Church set "its own economic house in order," declared: "It is nothing short of a scandal to find Churches standing out against labor unions...