Word: drivingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sheepherders, Yes. Last week the first cracks in the McKellar-McCarran empire began to appear. With considerable courage, Majority Leader Scott Lucas had led the successful bipartisan drive to pass an EGA bill without the crippling amendments written into it by McKellar's Appropriations Committee. Example: McCarran's proposal to give $50 million to Franco's Spain. Victorious in that fight, Lucas then turned on Pat McCarran...
...International Christian University. Long a dream of Christians on both sides of the Pacific, the I.C.U. will open in 1951, specializing in graduate courses. To finance the university, Japanese businessmen have raised 150 million yen (about half a million dollars); next month, a $10 million fund-raising drive will be launched...
...Dallas, Justice of the Peace William E. Richburg sentenced Wife-Beater Grady Rogers to attend church with his wife for four Sundays. In San Francisco, after Stanley John Ostram had been arrested for doing 80 on the Bay Bridge, Judge Matthew Brady suspended his license, ordered him to drive across at 45 once each month for a year...
...Communist drive against the Roman Catholic Church, which is essentially an effort to split it up into national segments, follows a plan conceived by Adolf Hitler. The diary of Nazi Racist Alfred Rosenberg, published last week by U.S. Military Government in Germany, tells how in 1940 Hitler planned to set up a German Catholic Church with its own pope. He also intended to have a pope for each German satellite country. Rosenberg quotes Hitler as saying: "The more popes, the better...
With sweet smiles and cold determination, the sisters move in on and eventually take possession of the converted-stable studio of a dithery painter (Elsa Lan-chester). They also wheedle the deed to a valuable piece of real estate from a notorious gangster (Thomas Gomez), and almost drive a songwriting neighbor (Hugh Marlowe) out of his mind before he capitulates. In their childlike faith, they brush aside every staggering obstacle in their path. When things look really tough, they say a prayer to St. Jude, patron of the impossible...