Word: flower
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...manner in which the Confederate Army used the regular army officers it got at the outbreak of the Civil War. It is the plan recommended for future wars by Grant in his memoirs. It is the plan the British wished they'd had after they lost the flower of their army in the first few battles in France...
Larger leaves are grown by Victoria cruziana, tropical water-lily with flower buds the size of a head of lettuce, up to 4 ft. in diameter not counting upturned edge. Taking due precautions a light (100 Ib.) person may sit upon them...
...Shrine of the Little Flower" near Detroit. Money has poured in upon him, more than enough to pay $20,000-a-week expenses and build a showy "Charity Crucifixion Tower," buy statuary for the Shrine. Criticism he can ignore, even that of Boston's stocky old William Henry Cardinal O'Connell who has muttered, "It is better for everyone concerned when a priest keeps his place." For Father Coughlin is responsible only to his superior, Bishop Michael James Gallagher. And he claims the backing of Pope Pius XI who has said that "every minister of holy religion must...
...stock deal. The Free Press showed that Father Coughlin had sometimes deposited $20,000 at a time in $1 bills- gifts from radio listeners -and that part of the stock he bought was paid for with money from the account of the radio "League of the Little Flower." The Free Press did not dwell on the fact that Father Coughlin was legally free to manage his radio receipts as he pleased...
...right to speak of financial matters, he renewed his denunciations of "crap-shooting bank affiliates and their hideout holding companies" which he had charged were formed to evade paying double liability. His investments he mentioned only briefly, crying that the Free Press "defames the League of the Little Flower and myself for investing in productive Michigan industry,* which we will do again." Of the mysterious bombing of his house, Father Coughlin said not a word...