Word: fording
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...least "Homer," Mr. Rodeheaver explained that Negro spirituals had taken him to Africa. Raised in Jellicoe, Tenn., birthplace of Soprano Grace Moore, he knew black amoor harmonies and rhythms early, claims credit for popularizing them as early as 1917. In the Congo, in which he traveled 1.500 miles by Ford, bicycle, canoe, litter and on foot, Missionary Rodeheaver played hymns and spirituals on his battered trombone, often starting alone in a clearing and eventually attracting 1,000 or so black heathens. Sending word of his imminence by their signal drums, the Negroes called him "White Song Man," dubbed Bishop Moore...
...Henry Ford...
April 6: Harvard Square business men join anti-Oath forces. April 7: Repeal of Oath Bill defeated in House. Deland appointed '36 Agent for Harvard Fund. April 9: Ballantine-Bowditch resolution results in minor changes in Student Council Constitution. Dismissal provision included. April 10: Ford elected 1937 Hockey Captain. April 15: Princeton-Harvard-Yale conference on public affairs announced by Crimson, News, and Tiger. Conant and Holcombe support move. April 17: Davidson and Navy on 1937 football schedule. April 21: Veterans of Future Wars hold mass meeting in Emerson. Demand bonus. Government 1 and Ec. A reorganized under Holcombe...
Because the automobile in the picture did not belong to him, Senator Borah does not now remember its make. The Ford agency in Washington claims it, by identifying hood&body. But Overland also identifies it as a 1920 model 4. Twelve TiME-readers have decided it is an Overland. Under the circumstances, all bets should...
Tennist Helen Wills Moody spent a week-end in Stockbridge, attended no Group meetings. But one day last week a private railway car rolled into a siding and out popped Clara Bryant Ford, self-effacing wife of Henry Ford. Far from exploited by the Groups, who made clear that she was not identified with their movement, Mrs. Ford quietly attended meetings, lunched with Dr. Buchman and the most important of his followers, beheld a documentary Group film called Bridge Builders. Two days later she departed, thus ending rumors that her husband was to arrive in the company of Harvey Firestone...