Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sermons of Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick usually are preached from his pulpit in the Park Avenue Baptist Church, Manhattan. He preaches to packed houses; it therefore is not easy to attend his church, but to gain admittance to the church proper the following instructions have been issued: attend the service in the men's auditorium, hear Dr. Fosdick's voice through an amplifier; sign a blank and receive a ticket for admission to the church proper on the following Sunday...
Democratic Gain This Year...
...that brilliant young man" was believed to be holding his fire. He had more to gain, for his own cause of getting Progressives elected to Congress throughout the Northwest, by waiting for a more dramatic moment to declare himself. He had much to lose from his reputation for square-speaking if he did not ultimately declare himself. Because, besides the utterances of the LaFollette organs, there were other elements and developments...
Toward the close of the contest. David Guarnaccia '29 tossed a lateral to A. E. French '29. The play, which was worked successfully last year, netted a 16-yard gain. Considerable em- phasis was placed on this play at the start of the training session, and it seems as if it will be one of the offensive tricks to be held in reserve...
...special grand jury which has been investigating the frauds, conspiracies and murders attendant upon Chicago's primary election last April, last week brought indictments of a police lieutenant, eight racketeers and a large, dark figure who had seemed destined to gain fame in the councils of the nation-Oscar DePriest, first Negro alderman of Chicago, nominee of the G. O. P. to succeed the late famed Martin Barnaby Madden in the House of Representatives. It was not the first time Mr. DePriest had been indicted. In 1916 he was accused of handling tainted money, but the charge languished...