Word: eves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Unitarian Department of the Ministry. Friends of Dr. Joy nominated him, made an issue of the report and what they called the "Humanism" of Dr. Eliot. So great was the outcry they aroused, so voluminous the letter-writing in Unitarian journals, that Dr. Joy withdrew his candidacy on the eve of the Association meeting in Boston last week, and the presidency went to Dr. Eliot as scheduled. Only acrimony at the meeting was when a resolution was introduced expressing Unitarian satisfaction with the gaining power of U. S. Labor. Ordinarily as liberal as any U. S. churchmen, the Unitarians voted...
Although Forbes Morgan had been occupied with the fight between producers and Pennsylvania at the time of his death, it was not because of this one fight that liquor interests last week badly needed a new front man. On the eve of the Kentucky Derby fortnight ago in Louisville, an assembly of liquor men who make up the Distilled Spirits Institute received word from California that the State Legislature had passed and sent to Governor Frank Merriam an "antidiscrimination" liquor bill not unlike Missouri's. Prime purpose of the bill is to protect proud California's wine growers...
...Derby Eve banquet of the Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels. Governor Albert Benjamin ("Happy") Chandler extended his thanks for the colonels' aid during last winter's great Ohio flood, announced that he would break his rule against appointing more colonels by issuing up to ten new commissions in 1938. Named new general of the order was Colonel John Jeremiah Pelley, president of the Association of American Railroads...
...after boldly talking back to the President on the subject of economy, they thought they were leaving him favorably disposed toward Senator Byrnes's proposal of a flat 10% cut in all appropriations except fixed charges (interest on public debt, veterans' pensions, Government contracts). But on the eve of the President's departure for Texas and tarpon, Missouri's Clarence Cannon, the senior member of the House Appropriations Committee, paid a White House visit. Returning to the Capitol, he promptly sponsored a 132-word resolution simply "impounding" 15% of all appropriations for fiscal 1938 and providing...
Derby Week starts Wednesday night, with a parade and pageant depicting Kentucky sports, followed by dancing in the streets. Thursday night's specialty this year was to be a tennis match between Ellsworth Vines and Fred Perry at the Jefferson County Armory. Friday night festivities were the Derby Eve Ball, an all-star wrestling program, and the annual reunion banquet & mint-julep shower of Kentucky Colonels. Saturday is the Derby...