Word: contributors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Combined Charities contribution card lists nine possible charities for the contributor to check and a space to write in any other. A pamphlet briefly describing each charity will be delivered to student rooms Sunday night...
...time the Jews began their actual military struggle for Palestine, Louis Finkelstein was definitely a non-Zionist-a stand which looked to Zionists like anti-Zionism. At least one large contributor to the seminary tore up his usual check. Some of the faculty deeply resented Finkelstein's attitude, and when he refused to let the students sing the Israel national anthem at commencement in 1945, on the ground that a political song has no place at a religious ceremony, the seminary nearly split apart...
When Colonel Blimp opened one of his favorite papers one day last week-the Tory Evening Standard-he got an eye-bugging jolt. Gad, sir, the Standard seemed to have an odd new contributor: hell-raising Laborite Aneurin Bevan, who once called the Conservative press "the most prostituted in the world...
Irving Florman, self-made inventor (cigarette lighters, mine detectors), onetime Broadway play angel and songwriter (Chauve Souris), resigned last week as U.S. ambassador in La Paz. His diplomatic career had lasted 22 lively months. A heavy Democratic campaign contributor, Florman maintained generally good relations with the Bolivian government. But his relations with his own Government in Washington were always testy. After his appointment by President Truman, he spent a full year at La Paz without confirmation by the Senate; the appointment was not actively pushed by the State Department. Recalled for "consultations" with the President last May, he signed...
...Christian Century published an exchange of learned letters last week on the niceties of biblical translating. One contributor, Steven T. Byington, took a stand against the practice, long common in printing the King James version, of italicizing all words not in the original texts. Byington's objection: the unpracticed reader is apt to infer emphasis where no emphasis is intended. For example, he said, take I Kings...