Word: gifting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...does he do it? What divine-or possibly sinister-gift does the man possess? This question has often struck dazed spectators of thin, hollow-eyed Msgr. Fulton John Sheen's success, year after year, in converting Americans to Catholicism-Columnist Heywood Broun, Capitalist Henry Ford II, Communist Louis Budenz, Congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce and hundreds of others...
...made this assertion in a statement as a Senate Judiciary subcommittee summoned its first witness to testify tomorrow at hearings on legislation to prevent the sale, gift, or loan to any foreign power of any radar of electronic equipment or plans...
...Easter gift to the Orthodox Church, the Soviet Government last fortnight announced that Russia's once-wealthiest convent, the 422-year-old Novodyevichi ("New Virgins"), which has been a Moscow museum since 1922, would be restored to the Church. It could again take in Russian girls as nuns. About 90 other convents and monasteries throughout Russia have been recently returned to the Church, making its recovery of confiscated properties exceed...
...thought the chances were good. The Rev. Dr. Levy L. Carpenter, who edits the official Baptist Biblical Recorder, was not so optimistic. The offer, he said, is "magnificent." But, warned he: "Wake Forest may lose its soul as a denominational and Christian institution if it accepts such a large gift from outside sources...
...Brand in His Bonnet. The changeover from one-man control to many-man control began for McCormick & Co. in 1932. That year, autocratic, hard-driving Willoughby M. McCormick, founder of the business, left it to his nephew Charlie. The new boss looked his 43-year-old gift horse squarely in the teeth and found it shaky financially, low in morale, wary of initiative...