Word: converting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Catholic newspapers featured the news, reported Convert Mann's cautious statement that "while I was in office, I never permitted anyone to make use of anti-Catholic propaganda. . . . I know of all the organized bigotry . . . in that campaign...
...Replied Convert Mann: "May God bless your profound graciousness and sweet soul...
...hung out by Philadelphia brewers swamped with job-seekers. Press pictures appeared of huge crowds lined up for work before the Anheuser-Busch plant in St. Louis. ¶In Manhattan the fashionable Waldorf-Astoria began to fix up a "tavern" for beer-drinkers. The Fifth Avenue Hotel planned to convert a restaurant into an imitation sidewalk café and call it the Roosevelt Room. In Milwaukee where factory whistles and fire-engine sirens welcomed the return of beer the famed old Blatz Hotel revived its palm garden for German beer drinkers. ¶Moaned Anti-Saloon League's Francis Scott...
...President had done some extraordinary things. Now in A. B. C. fashion he wanted to explain his actions to his countrymen and persuade them, by simple word and confident voice, not to repeat their own extraordinary behavior of the week prior when all at once they attempted to convert their bank deposits into currency, precipitating crisis...
...Friends!" he began. "This is a day of national consecration. . . . The only thing we have to fear is fear itself- nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance...