Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Almost pure white was the appearance of the Negro chosen last week to head the Republicans' darktown drive in the East. He was Francis Ellis Rivers, son of the last Negro member of the Tennessee Legislature. He graduated from Yale (Class of 1915) with a Phi Beta Kappa, won a lieutenant's commission during the War, got a degree from Columbia University's Law School, has sat in the New York Legislature. Able and up-to-date Republican Rivers promptly adopted a brain trust including Charles E. Mitchell, onetime Minister to Liberia, Oliver Randolph, onetime member...
What was surprising was that, after the Memphis conferences, Senator McKellar one morning in mid-July announced that his candidate for the Democratic nomination for Governor was Burgin Estel Dossett, East Tennessee schoolteacher. Dossett was also the candidate of the present State Administration headed by Governor Hill McAlister, whom Boss Crump helped to elect. Six hours later Boss Crump announced: "We, what is generally known as the city and county crowd, will support Gordon Browning for Governor believing he is honestly the best...
Thus last week did Rev. Dr. Charles Jefferson, 75, high-minded honorary minister of Manhattan's Broadway Tabernacle, address the 56th annual General Conference for Christian Workers at East Northfield, Mass. To his 4,000 listeners in the largest of the gatherings of ministers, students and missionaries which every summer brings to East Northfield, Dr. Jefferson's words almost seemed designated ko echo a Northfieldite who did do mighty work: Dwight Lyman Moody, doughty founder of the General Conference...
...Church in the U. S. A., onetime pupil at Northfield's Mount Hermon School for Boys which Dwight Moody founded. Among men who will help Dr. McDowell in arranging Moody celebrations are Dr. John R. Mott and Dr. Robert Elliott Speer, prime exponents of the evangelism for which East Northfield stands today; Sir John Edward Kynaston Studd, who as a Cambridge student was converted by Evangelist Moody; Sir Wilfred Grenfell, who was inspired to work as a medical missionary in Labrador by the U. S. man of God; Dwight Moody's only surviving son, Paul Dwight...
Balinese ethics are dictated by the benefit or harm that would affect the community as a whole if certain acts were performed. Private behavior which does not injure other members of the community is regarded with complete indifference. Geoffrey Gorer thinks that the West has nothing to teach the East except the use of labor-saving machinery, that the East has a great mission in teaching the Wrest the rudiments of good manners...