Word: convert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...silent in the committee chamber sat Hauptmann's prosecutor, New Jersey's Attorney General David T. Wilentz. When the Hallam report was released to news hawks, A.B.A.'s retiring President William Lynn Ransom, who with Newton Diehl Baker has been trying to convert the Press amicably, exploded: "Unauthorized, irregular, and improper...
...Rolls-Royce,* by John Hoshor, 37, a white Manhattanite, onetime stockbroker, now a free-lance adman and investment counsel. Impressed by Father Divine as a self-advertiser, Biographer Hoshor claims to have spent six months in & out of a Divine "heaven" in Harlem, pretending to be a convert and, he says, almost becoming...
Connecticut Railway & Lighting revealed in a letter to the SEC that if $1,500,000 of new capital could be obtained to convert trolley properties into bus lines, the company might be able to pay the charges on its funded debt. Even then there was no reasonable expectation that anything could be paid on the preferred stock, let alone the common. Wrote President William Warden Bodine...
Thus the attitude of Italians toward conquered Ethiopia is Christian in its readiness to collaborate with and convert the heathen, and Roman in its drastic finality. The features of Benito Mussolini in the prime of his conquest are those of an Augustan Caesar. "It is our peace," he told his victorious legions, "Roman peace...
...date, makes it plain that its real cause lay in the fact that Clark Gable did not say his prayers at night. Gable is Blackie Norton, owner of a notorious café, and Miss MacDonald is his No. 1 chanteuse. Father Tim (Spencer Tracy) struggles to make a convert out of Blackie while Mr. Burley (Jack Holt) struggles to make an opera singer out of the chanteuse, so that she will be worthy of his manor on Nob Hill. The Burley plan is succeeding much better than Father Tim's when the bricks begin to rain...