Word: elder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus, as he will every week for the next year, Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux took his famed Radio Church of God from its Washington, D.C., tabernacle to Manhattan "to open a second front against the Satanic kingdom." For singing the devil and hell out of a town, Elder Michaux-self-styled "General of the International Forces of Right against Wrong"-has at least one solid endorsement: successive police chiefs in Washington have declared his preaching reduces crime...
...simple speech Elder Statesman Herbert Hoover last week offered twelve principles to guide civilian economy in total war. To 4,000 people at the Manhattan convention of the National Association of Manufacturers (see p. 91) Herbert Hoover said: "From our own experience and the experience of all other countries ... we can distill some principles or policies of organization of civilians. I do not offer them as criticism, but as recommendations for adoption where they have not been applied in this war." The principles...
...only 100 feet above the airport. Doolittle wangled the ailing plane to 300 feet and dropped out. His parachute broke his fall when he was ten feet off the ground. Then he walked around in circles, staring intently at the ground. "Looking for my rip cord," he explained. His elder son, Jimmy Jr., then ten years old, pointed to the wreckage and asked Jimmy Sr.: "We lose much in that, Pappy?" "About everything we've got," answered Jimmy Sr., poking calmly in the ruins...
...massive judgment" of Prime Minister Field Marshal Jan Christiaan Smuts of South Africa. Last week this massive judgment challenged the United Nations to win the peace as well as the war. Speaking to a special assembly of Britain's Parliament, South Africa's soldier, philosopher and elder statesman said in part...
Lacking food, the Danes still had a king. On his 72nd birthday, Sept. 26, Christian, the elder brother of Norway's Haakon, sent a curt answer to Hitler's flowery message of good will. The answer: "Thank you, Christian, Rex." This week Christian lay injured by a fall from his horse* and the Nazis had applied new pressures to make Denmark a "model province" of the Third Reich...