Word: fold
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Communists. In the most intense portion of his encyclical Pope Pius termed Communists degenerate, cruel, inhuman, impious, nefarious, and many of their works ghastly. "One section of Socialism," declared His Holiness, "has degenerated into Communism. Communism teaches and pursues a two-fold aim: Merciless class warfare and complete abolition of private ownership. And this it does, not in secret and by hidden methods, but openly, frankly and by every means, even the most violent. To obtain these ends, Communists shrink from nothing and fear nothing, and when they have attained power, it is unbelievable, indeed, it seems portentous, how cruel...
...Government sued Corn Products Refining and the company discreetly sold its interest in Penick & Ford back to the original owners, who sold what amounted to one-third of the company to Frederick Thomas Bedford, who thereupon left the paternal fold to strike out for himself. Ten years younger than Messrs. Penick & Ford, Son Bedford assumed large duties. In 1927 he was made president of the company. Although Penick & Ford was almost wrecked by the depression of 1921, 1930 saw its profits at $1,811,348 against 1929's $1,882,441. It is the country's third largest...
...Forker, lately advertising director of Hearst's International Magazine Co. Inc. Publisher Forker broke in as a cub on the Los Angeles Herald in 1908, later serving as International News Service correspondent on the Mexican border, working on various papers about the U. S., returning to the Hearst fold in 1917 as editor of Harper's Bazaar. ¶Economist Henry Parker Willis, with the New York Journal of Commerce for 30 years, resigned the editorship which he had held since 1919. Reason: "Clashes of opinion" with the Brothers Joseph, Bernard and Victor Ridder, publishers. Managing Editor Frederick...
...which divorce may be secured in six weeks and fourteen minutes, easily half the time of the closest rival. Efficiency supreme, with magistrates rising at 6 o'clock to prepare for the day's actions, and gambling extreme, by the newest laws, have brought all the sheep into the fold, while wolves of one sort or another have gathered for the killing...
...Corporal Jose Heredia were responsible for the assassination of 44 political prisoners at Santiago in recent months. Soldiers saved the life of Corporal Heredia from a riotous mob. Lieutenant Valle either committed suicide or was murdered. He left a note which approaches the height of understatement for a 44-fold assassin: "In a moment of weakness I have done things I am ashamed...