Word: free
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...definite: He urged the U.S. people this year as always to celebrate Thanksgiving on the last Thursday in November. He expressed his firm intention to regroup and reorganize his patchwork of Government departments and alphabetic agencies. On all other subjects he was amiable, encouraging, glad to give everyone free rein to make plans, entirely noncommittal as to what he would do about them...
...Home Office informed the House that gas masks at the rate of 2,000,000 per month will soon be available for distribution free to the 45,000,000 subjects of King Edward in the United Kingdom "in the event of an emergency." The Home Secretary Sir John Simon, speaking in behalf of his bill to ban the wearing of "political uniforms" (TIME, Nov. 16), told the House with an owlish air of knowing more than he could reveal: "Information has reached me which goes to show that both in the case of Fascist and Communist organizations, their funds have...
...lured to the polls by the thought of the native rum, aguardiente, distributed by candidates. It was to the immense chagrin of voters, therefore, that Provisional President Carlos Brenes Jarquin, a doctor of medicine, decreed last week that during next month's Presidential election there will be no free liquor...
...until 1908 did the Gideons begin to make their name famed by putting free Bibles in hotels and hospitals. Since then Bible-giving has become their one big job. They have given away 1,300,000 at an average cost of $1, today boast that sooner or later they find donations to fulfill all requests with neat volumes now bound in whiskey-proof keratol. Until last week all three founders were still active in business and Gideon affairs. Then Death came to Samuel Eugene Hill, 70, in Beloit, Wis. To the funeral went Insurance Man Knights, 83, of Wild Rose...
...locality the Gideons never penetrated is the citadel of the U. S. Bible trade: Manhattan. There the New York Bible Society supplies free Holy Writ to the hotels and there flourishes the largest Bible publishing house in the Western Hemisphere, the American Bible Society. The latter organization, 120 years old, last week passed another milestone by dedicating a new $500,000 home, a six-story stone building at Park Avenue and 57th Street, remodeled and air-conditioned. Since 1853 the American Bible Society's Bible House had been a landmark in fusty, downtown Astor Place. From...