Word: ended
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...values in this manifestation were painfully outweighed by its negative and unconstructive aspects. One minister (a very eminent man, whose books are best sellers) told me that he had had to take two members of his congregation to ah asylum-so grievously had they "gone off at the deep end" through jettisoning orderly processes of judgment, mental discipline and sound common sense and substituting therefore the capricious thaumaturgical foibles of these doctrinaires. Several friends of mine became "Groupers" (they like to add the erudite "Oxford" to the label) some time back but beyond a lopsided fanaticism, a persistent proclaiming...
...Knowland was beaten for the U. S. Senate. At the end of his political career and ambitious to be a publisher, he lent Mrs. Dargie $65,000, in return for which she assigned him temporarily her half-interest in the Tribune. This half-interest Joe Knowland put up as collateral for a loan with which he bought the other half of the paper. Result of these transactions was to make Joe Knowland and Herminia Peralta Dargie joint owners of the Tribune, with Knowland holding voting control (to cover his $65,000 loan) and acting as publisher and president. Publisher Knowland...
Suspecting more than water in the sender's room, the radio agencies ashore reported the whole business to the Federal Communications Commission, which got on the job late, but with the meagre direction finder information available, at week's end had narrowed down its search for the S O S sender to the vicinity of Tampa Bay. Possible penalty: $10,000 fine, two years in jail...
Aging Prophet Herbert George Wells, 72, published in England his 85th book, The Fate of Homo Sapiens. He contended that it is "still just possible" that democratic brainwork may avert Man's fate; otherwise mankind, "which began in a cave, will end in the disease-soaked ruins of a slum...
...year General Manager Nolan took charge, the line's net income was $1,181,587, and its fixed charges were earned 1.61 times. At the end of the 1939 fiscal year, net income had hit $2,030,033 and the line had earned its charges 2.26 times. It also paid $743,022 in taxes. Its wage scale went up with income and today Detroit Street Railways' platform men, operating 1,269 busses, 1,302 streetcars, are paid an average of 81? an hour, highest...