Word: convert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Young Mr. Wofford Jr. arose from his bath a convert. Bicycling around suburban Scarsdale, N.Y., he swiftly enlisted a number of his friends at Scarsdale High School in the first student chapter of Streit's Federal Union...
...revolutionary program of re-education," aimed to present the Negro (in books, newspapers, movies, texts) to the public in a fair, sober light. "The university of the arts has permitted Paul Robeson, Marian Anderson, and Roland Hayes to 'convert' many hostile persons. Jesse Owens . . . Joe Louis . . . George Washington Carver . . . have provided the first jolt to many minds steeped in stereotyped ideas...
...White House, eager for such a convert, got busy. Harry Hopkins invited Ball over to see the President. The three-Hopkins, Roosevelt and Ball-talked an hour together at the White House. The day was Sunday, Oct. 15. Two days later Ball told newsmen: he would decide after hearing the foreign policy speeches of both candidates...
...burning homes on the eastern seaboard will get enough oil this winter. There will be enough oil, in fact, so that the nearly 200,000 citizens who patriotically converted from oil to coal-and then found there was not enough coal, either-will soon be allowed to convert back to oil again...
...Dewey opened the week with a 15-minute radio address on taxes, delivered from his desk in the dark, mid-Victorian Governor's Mansion in Albany. He had a clear opening of the kind he likes: the President's own Harry Hopkins had just announced himself a convert to free enterprise and the use of taxes to stimulate business rather than reform it (see BUSINESS). Said Governor Dewey: "The highest New Dealers at last admit that this Administration has created an impossible situation...