Word: flock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Loyally Bishop Meisser's flock stuck by him. Fortnight ago he went out to a mountain village to preach. Eight hundred hulking woodsmen filled the pockets of their leather breeches with stones and dared Nazi Storm Troopers to interfere. Then last week the whisper was passed about Munich: "Go to the Mattiaskirche on Thursday evening. Bishop Meisser will have something...
...Editor of The Social Frontier and spearhead of the whole movement for a New Order through Education is George Sylvester Counts, 44, Professor of Education at Teachers College. He is a slender man of middle height with pompadoured brown hair, a deep voice, a bristly reddish mustache. Teachers Collegians flock to his classes. He is a prolific writer, can be counted on for a newsmaking speech at almost every educators' convention. He has taught Education at Yale, Harvard, University of Washington, University of Chicago. A leader in the Progressive Education movement, he lives on a farm in New Hope...
...tidy Hitlerish ranks and provide a scene of disciplined might for the newsreels. The Milanese did better. They jammed into the square, clambered onto every pedestal, statue and ledge in the vicinity. The burly Duce, squinting against the refulgent sun, was obliged to wave his arms to get his flock to keep quiet and hear him roar through loudspeakers, which worked imperfectly, a promise to Laborers...
...which such congresses have been held, only London and Chicago are larger than Nuestra Ciudad de la Santisima Trinidad, Puerto de Buenos Aires-Our City of the Most Holy Trinity, Port of Good Airs. And the faithful who will throng the city represent the Pope's largest flock-Latin Americans who comprise one-third of the world's 300,000,000 Catholics. Thus the Vatican was happy to emphasize that in sending Cardinal Pacelli as Papal Legate to the Buenos Aires congress the Pope was expressing his high esteem for his Latin American children. Not mentioned...
Pessimistic powermen expect Mr. Lilienthal to continue his dashing campaign until he runs every private company out of the Valley with a total loss of holding company equities. However, Bond & Share and Commonwealth & Southern, the systems most vitally affected, have lately acquired a flock of allies which may sand Mr. Lilienthal's high-speed gears. A potent group of bituminous coal operators have filed suit, challenging the Constitutionality of the whole TV A program. Electrical equipment dealers are pouting at the narrow profit margins on Electric Home & Farm Authority lines. Ice and fuel dealers, whose business is threatened with...