Word: g
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Board of Preachers was officially inaugurated in 1886, and Francis G. Peabody was appointed first Chairman, with functions resembling those of a university dean in England...
Interviews, applications, and supporting papers for Fulbright Awards for graduates study or research abroad in 1958-59 must be completed on or before Oct. 31, 1957, Lawrence G. Jones, assistant dean of the Graduate School of arts and Sciences, has announced...
...Catholic Colombia, hatred of Protestants-especially the active, evangelistic denominations-has long been cultivated. Ever since 1887, when Roman Catholicism became the country's official religion, Catholics found a lively response to whispering campaigns against the threat of Protestantism. Conservative Party Dictator Gómez was convinced that all Protestants were members of the Liberal Party and hence his mortal enemies. Just before Gómez was overthrown by Rojas in 1953, his government signed an agreement with the Vatican cutting two-thirds of the country into 18 mission territories in which only Catholic churches and schools could operate...
...some 32 million people were hearing about an invasion of grey monsters who glistened like wet leather jackets and were attacking New Jersey with death rays. Thus on Halloween of 1938 did Orson Welles don a sheet and say "Boo!" to the radio audience with an adaptation of H. G. Wells's classic thriller, The War of the Worlds, and launch the most garish panic in the annals of broadcasting...
...busy mind of Benjamin Kram, onetime numbers racketeer (in Pittsburgh) and taxi driver (in Miami) who decided that there must be better ways of going beyond his $17-a-month Government check for partial (10%) service disability. With his brothers Henry and Max he founded the Ex-G.I. Plastics Co., and soon they were going beyond at the startlingly successful rate of about $18,000 gross a week. Gimmick: the Krams crammed cheap plastic crucifixes into envelopes with letters asking $1 aid for a partially disabled vet, mailed them by the hundreds of thousands to Catholic-sounding names culled...