Word: exactions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...issue through to a conclusion, I will say that it has been my privilege to deliver Father Divine's message to thousands in the Pacific Northwest since December of last year. During December I visited Father Divine personally and ascertained by observation and experience the exact nature of the work He is doing; and by co-operation with Him and the Principle advocated by Him I have been able to witness the duplication in some measure of His wonderful works in the form of apparently miraculous healing of all manner of physical disease as well as the more remarkable...
...signal, the members of the secret society creep up on Garrett, gag and bind him with adhesive tape while he is having his shoes shined. A high-school girl (Judith Allen) entertains his bodyguard while the boys take Garrett to a deserted factory, try him in a kangaroo court, exact his confession to both murders by dunking him in a rat-infested well. The conclusion is an amazing scene, presumably a DeMil-lenium, in which the schoolboys parade through the streets singing such songs as "The Old Grey Mare" and "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" while riding Garrett...
...believed by Catholics. Yet its origin is lost in antiquity. Some say that Mary died at 69, others at 72 or 75. Jerusalem and Ephesus both claimed to have been her death place. How she died is not recorded, but theologians argue (in terms which to them are as exact as mathematics) that because fleshly dissolution could not come to Christ's Mother, she died of love. The Assumption into Heaven is supposed to have taken place from three to 40 days later. Theologians hold that her body & soul were reunited, her Jewish burial garments cast off and herself...
...growth of a series of strikes which began last week among bus drivers, spread to waterfront workers, slaughterhouse and market men, newspaper staffs, telegraphers, railway employes and the staffs of Havana's best hotels. Suspicion was rife that the Government, fearing Mediator Welles was about to exact the resignation of President Machado. had sent agents provocateurs to foment the original strikes, thinking that a little trouble would give Dictator Machado an excuse to order out the Army and fight to keep his power. Day after day, as strikes spread far beyond the Government's possible wish, Havana police...
...theft police advanced the theory that the sneak thief had used a stick tipped with chewing gum to lift the bonds from behind the teller's window. William J. Burns Detective Agency believe that he might have wheedled from a runner or other company employe the exact time that the bonds would be delivered, arranged to have a crony telephone the teller when he crooked a finger. The telephone would distract the teller for a split-second, and a split-second is all a smart thief needs. Once the thief had the bonds they probably passed, as most...