Word: generously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Charles Allen Ward, millionaire Minneapolis printer, longtime friend and backer of Minnesota's late Farmer-Labor Boss Floyd B. Olson. This fact promptly set tongues wagging as to whether the National Progressives have not acquired that indispensable aid to a fledgling enterprise, theatrical or political-a well-heeled, generous angel...
After Founder Funk died in 1912, the Digest became largely the creation of Robert Joseph Cuddihy, who was first employed by Funk & Wagnalls in 1878 as a 16-year-old office boy. He eventually came to own 60% of the company's stock. Retiring, kindly, generous Publisher Cuddihy used his magazine to collect some $10,000,000 for Belgian and Near East relief during and after the World War. In the ten years following the War, the Digest achieved its greatest period of power and prestige...
...withdrawal of British forces from the three Irish treaty ports of Cobh (Queenstown), Lough S willy and Bere Haven, who loudly wondered if Prime Minister de Valera was really a friend of England. But Negotiator Chamberlain called his Anglo-Irish bill an "act of faith," admitted he had granted generous terms to Eire to gain her friendship. In Eire it was announced that Neville Chamberlain will spend a fishing holiday this summer in Galway-the first visit of a British Prime Minister to Ireland since...
...Month" choice is a lively competitor of the organized book clubs. With publication last month of My Son, My Son!, plain English readers were pleased as they had not been since J. B. Priestley unfolded from his cocoon. My Son, My Son! is a sad story. But with its generous length (649 pages), plot and number of characters, its easy. Dickensian narrative, a fortifying moral, the story carries its own self-comforting device- not unlike the jet of oil that plays on high-speed emery wheels to prevent tools losing their temper...
After Tom Healey lost the opener on Saturday Ingalls, came through with his second victory. seven Crimson runs in the first inning gave the Mitchell mound ace a wide margin. With the lead never in danger, Ingalls was generous with the Lions, allowing nine hits for seven runs...