Word: giver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...objects of the family group renew, at the festive board, the vows of affection, exchange kind greetings, and revive recollections of the past to enliven the present; while the pilgrimage of life is brightened and sweetened by innocent amusements and healthful recreations, and a sense of obligation to the Giver of all good is implanted more deeply in the heart, sanctifying our trials and enhancing our blessings by a consciousness of the presence and protection...
Three years ago American Airlines financed the purchase of some Douglas DC-3s and DSTs largely by equipment trust certificates sold to RFC. But Pan American had to seek no such professional giver of largess. It sold $2,500,000 worth of 4% certificates, maturing semiannually from January 1940 to January 1944, to the hardheaded New York Trust Co., has an option to sell it another $1,000,000 worth...
Newest gift of Viscount Nuffield, greatest nonroyal giver in British history, is to be an iron lung, free of charge, for each and every medical institution in the Empire. Part of his tremendous motor car plant, England's biggest (which made the millions he gave to Oxford University), the bullnecked Viscount last week put in commission to make the first 5,000 lungs. Estimated cost: $2,500,000. His inspiration: a movie made by Oxford's anesthetics department which he founded...
...head, however big, could carry all Mr. Roosevelt thinks he knows. . . . One day an inflationist, the next a deflationist. A fixer of prices who denounces his own creations, a giver of what he calls 'the more abundant life' who orders the destruction of food while millions of his fellow-countrymen are undernourished. A great preacher of free speech who threatened the political ruin of the Senator who for the sake of principle opposed his Supreme Court 'reform.' A bitter critic of bureaucracy who has created so many bureaux that Washington cannot contain them. A stern advocate...
...acquisition of "Inisfada" was almost routine. Though they enjoy no personal property, many Jesuits work and study in places like the vast Massachusetts estate of the late W. E. D. Stokes, and in the hotel at West Baden, Ind. which the late Edward Ballard gave them. To the giver-away of "Inisfada" and its treasures, Mrs. Genevieve Garvan Brady, the decision she made public last week marked a definite turning point in an unusual life...