Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...believe that there is going to be war, he then showed by having all U. S. citizens in Ethiopia instructed to depart. Immediately the Ethiopian Mission Service ordered all its U. S. and other missionaries to remain at their posts in Ethiopia "whatever happens." Its explanation: "We put our faith in God, and do not expect consular protection." At latest reports from Washington the State Department still had not ordered Chargé D'Af- faires William Perry George to cable the full text of Emperor Power of Trinity's appeal. An ingenious young man at whiling away sultry...
...paper was just ten years old and Los Angeles was a town of 50,395 inhabitants. By all odds the fieriest spirit among them was Harrison Gray ("Old Walrus") Otis, late lieutenant colonel of the Union Army. In his own words, he nourished "a tremendous and abiding faith in the future of Los Angeles"-and its climate. This bewhiskered turkey-cock boomed the town into a city, made money as it grew, built himself a fine home called "The Bivouac" and mounted his bellicose eagle on a building at First and Broadway studded with granite battlements and buttresses...
...Novelist Faith Baldwin: "Unaccustomed as I am to public squeaking...
Pennsylvania suffered in two spots last week from too much faith in scientific preventive medicine. The trouble began 40 years ago when Sir Almroth Edward Wright, redoubtable young Irishman, made inoculation against typhoid fever a practicable medical procedure. U. S. sani- tarians were slow to pick up his methods. Consequently 20,738 U. S. soldiers, nearly one-fifth of those mobilized, suffered from typhoid-1,580 died- during the brief War with Spain. Simultaneously Dr. Wright, as a member of the India Plague Commission, was inoculating 3,000 soldiers in India. Later he had every...
...smart serialist, like a good businessman, surveys the market, knows what the public wants. When Faith Baldwin had published 28 books, including a dozen best selling romances about modern business women (The Office Wife, Week-End Marriage, Self-Made Woman, White Collar Girl), she decided that her public might like to read a family saga. Mazo de la Roche had made a phenomenal success with her Jalna books. Last year Faith Baldwin plunged into a set of serious novels tracing the development of a typical middle class family from its U. S. beginning to the present. Partly sober realism, partly...