Word: convert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Spanish, Russian. In the last tongue, no sermon had been preached before in a Catholic church in England. Preacher was Father Bourgeois, crack French Jesuit whose order has transferred him from the Church's Latin rite to its Russian rite, as key man in a new campaign to convert the U. S. S. R. to the faith...
Snubbed and misunderstood, Father Malachy realizes that the world is not ready for miracles. The dance hall, which he hoped to convert into a shrine, changes its name to The Miracle Casino, does business by the boat load. On Christmas Eve Malachy kneels among the Casino's drunken customers and performs a second wonder which leaves things pretty much at scratch...
Clearly then something more than the approval of House secretaries will be necessary to convert dignified common rooms into an arena for political debate. Coaches will have to be provided. If House debating is to take root it must be coached--and this may require the University to give debating the same financial support it so generously extends to other intramural activities...
...take into due consideration the reproduction cost of the property. Since the new rates would reduce P. G. & E.'s revenue some $2,000,000, the company got an injunction which the California Railroad Commission appealed. The Federal Power Commission then intervened in the case to attempt to convert the Supreme Court to the "prudent investment" concept. This week, while the Court will be pondering the case, President Roosevelt will discuss his rate-making ideas at the White House with a platoon of potent powermen, as did Mr. Hoover...
When Isaac Hecker, member of a German Protestant family which grew rich in Manhattan in the grain and baking business (Hecker's Rolled Oats), was converted to Catholicism and became a priest in 1849, there was no indigenous U. S. Catholic missionary order. With the zeal of a convert. Father Hecker founded an order-the Missionary Society of St. Paul the Apostle. Today no part of the U. S. is too remote to interest Paulist Fathers and last week they had good news from Winchester, Tenn...