Word: foundered
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...common knowledge that the U.S., because of its own economic interests and show of power, controls governments in Central America," says Sister Rosemarie Cummins, founder of the organization. Cummins, says that it would be contradictory for the American government to grant political asylum to people who who have fled the very countries America supports...
...modern" bent of the Society comes from the philosophy of its founder, Father Richard M. Benson, who began the society in Oxford in 1863. "There was a clear understanding in the beginning that part of our role would be ministering to the ministers," says Father Smith. The order set up shop in an unpretentious building ministering to the lower classes of Oxford, doing active works of evangelizing, teaching and preaching. Eschewing the traditional monastic habit, they adopted the simple black cassock of the Anglican clergy, but kept to the monastic regime and took the traditional monastic vows of chastity, poverty...
...hangar, 60,000 sq. ft., large enough to house a 747, edging up to the shimmering tarmac of a remote airfield in the Arizona desert, 90 miles southeast of Phoenix. On a wall within is a 4 ft.-by-3 ft. plaque that reads "George Arntzen Doole (1909-1985). Founder, Chief Executive Officer, Board of Directors of Air America Inc., Air Asia Company Limited, Civil Air Transport Company Limited." The plaque is the only memorial to a man who created and ran what was once one of the largest airlines in the free world. The airline was known by half...
King is a co-founder of the Rainbow Coalition, which popularized the Rev. Jackson's 1984 Presidential campaign. The two are friends and colleagues of long standing. Jackson preached last Sunday in the Arlington Street Church, where he criticized Reagan Administration policy. He then endorsed King at a news conference...
...previously announced gathering is expected to take place in autumn in the hometown of St. Francis, the founder of the Franciscan order, which has made peace a special goal. No date has been...