Word: converting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meantime, in two instances where President Roosevelt would have been glad to see economies effected, the real obstacles to Economy were glaringly highlighted. Tennessee's Senator Kenneth McKellar, a recent convert to Economy, managed to persuade the Senate, which was supposed to be paring down the $83,000,000 Second Deficiency Bill, to authorize and make the initial appropriation for a new $112,000,000 TVA dam near Gilbertsville, Ky. -just across the line from Tennessee. Chairman Robert L. ("Muley"; Doughton of the House Ways & Means Committee, who because a new tax bill would bear his name has been...
...closing minutes of the half Boston again marched down the field on a well-combined attack by their forwards and three quarter line. With a few minutes left to play they scored again but did not convert. The score at half time stood 8-3 in their favor...
...Karl Landsteiner, 68, discoverer of blood groupings, Nobel laureate and member of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, went to court in Manhattan for an injunction to keep his name out of a new edition of Who's Who in American Jewry. Explained Dr. Landsteiner, a Catholic convert: "Among peoples of the earth [there is] prejudice against Jews and Judaism. ... It will be detrimental to me to emphasize publicly the religion of my ancestors; first, as a matter of convenience and secondly, I want nothing that may in the slightest degree cause any mental anguish, pain or suffering...
...Five days of practice this week have helped considerably to round the team into shape and straighten out numerous problems. The most pressing of those problems has been in selecting left wings. There are very few left-hand shots on the squad, and consequently it has been necessary to convert righthanders...
...connection with the school six years ago but it still thrives with a faculty of ten, enrollment of 125. Graduates have already gone as far as Japan and Australia to teach the proper way to sing plain song. Mother Georgia Stevens, the school's director, is also a convert. She is widely known for her music textbooks for children, hopes some day to make the boys in her school sing as well as the girls...