Word: gathering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Move for Power. But the Southern politicos had other aims besides wanting to keep Harry Truman off the ballot. They wanted to insure their own re-election at home. And they hoped to gather enough power in the party to restore the two-thirds rule at their national convention-a rule which for 100 years had given them a virtual veto power over presidential candidates...
...Truman alternative alone could come near to satisfying ADA. What did crop into the open without warning was the overwhelming general unrest about the Administration drift toward a conservative orientation. Two viewpoints concerning strategy clashed: one holding that explicit platform-wise recognition of Truman's shortness on liberalism would gather votes for Wallace, another insisting that a whitewash inevitably spelled further Presidential slaps to the face of the Left. The issue was fought out in sessions of the political policy drafting committee. Careerist Democrats Paul Porter (ex-OPA chief) and Hubert Humphrey (upcoming Minneapolis Mayor) held that the wording must...
...holds all together, that creates, dissolves and recreates. That informing power or spirit is God. . . . I see it as purely benevolent, for I can see that in the midst of death, life persists; in the midst of untruth, truth persists; in the midst of darkness, light persists. Hence I gather that God is life, truth and light. He is love. He is the supreme good. But he is no God who merely satisfies the intellect, if he ever does. God to be God must rule the heart and transform...
...clock the crowd began to gather outside the 'Poon building, to partake of the free beer and listen to the serenade of a pick-up band. Forty-five minutes later every white shoe and club tie in Cambridge was there, but for some reason the animals were not. A murmur of expectation ran through the crowd as a peddler passed by with his horse and wagon, but negotiations failed...
...nations for extra funds. Throughout the world the campaign would reach a climax on Feb. 29 with a leap year appeal for every citizen to give the extra day's earnings. The committee, whose International Advisory Board is headed by former OPAster Chester Bowles, hopes to gather $60 million in the U.S. alone. A third of this would go directly to I.C.E.F. The rest would be divided among the Overseas Aid group agencies, including Quakers, Catholic Welfare Conference, A.F.L. and C.I.O. foreign relief programs...