Word: flocks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...practice of tithing, with which the Northern Baptist Convention has recently had much success. He began by setting his farmer congregation an example. Out of his own salary of $2,000 a year, he returned $200 to the church. Over & over again in his sermons he reminded his flock that tithing was the Christian standard. "We are what we are because God created us," he said, "and for our love for the Lord, tithing should only be the minimum of what...
...small fraction of them lived passably well in the former Government camps, now run by growers' associations, but an uncounted number were living as the U.S. likes to think none of its citizens lives-in corrugated tin hovels or sagging tents, with no capital left to drag a flock of youngsters to the next harvest area, and no claim to relief. For some, only federal surplus foods staved off actual starvation. With the onset of tireless, efficient mechanical picking machines and the growing influx of unemployed from the cities, their numbers were swelling again to the highest figure since...
Pastor in Pistachio. Business, by earthly standards, was good indeed. Tom worked up a wardrobe of 46 expensive suits (favorite: a pistachio-green gabardine), a flock of screaming sport shirts and cowboy jackets, 200 pairs of cowboy boots, some worth $200. "I like to keep my feet covered," explained Brother...
...were enough to breed doubt in some of the faithful. A few followers went to the district attorney. Last week Tom Patten, a strapping, 218-lb. six-footer with a toothy grin and a fat face, was on trial in Alameda County Courthouse charged with mulcting some of his flock of $20,000. One of the shaken believers, an unemployed food caterer named George Lewis, told the jury how he had parted with more than $10,000. "I'd go to a Patten meeting with my full pay ($125 a week) and come out with a couple of dollars...
...Congressman J. Parnell Thomas, the apoplectic former chairman of the House Un-American Activities Committee now serving six to 18 months for payroll padding, was reported in charge of the prison's chicken flock at Danbury, Conn, and earnestly studying ways & means of increasing its dwindling egg production...