Word: golden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York's Queens County Court, Judge Charles Golden recessed proceedings to halt a distracting grating noise coming from under the counsel table. The noise proved to be a house mouse (Mus musculus) calmly gnawing the sole of a newspaper reporter's shoe. Newshawk William Alexander, of the Long Island Daily Press, had been so busy he hadn't noticed. Judge Golden had the mouse caught and executed. Passing lightly over the mouse's fate, the New York Times soberly regarded Newshawk Alexander, praised his powers of concentration, added: "He approaches his duties with single-mindedness...
Radio spellbinders and Gerald Mann may cut into O'Daniel's support, but the tone of his announcement showed they faced a mighty task: "I shall take along with me the Ten Commandments, the Golden Rule, an inbred and inerasable common touch with the common man and I hope your unceasing prayers." He spoke of his "old, old friend the President," urged more and bigger pensions and fewer strikes. He ended with a poem...
...clubwomen of America-represented by 3,000 delegates and alternates attending the Golden Jubilee Convention of the General Federation of Women's Clubs-last week faced the issues of a world at war. Senators Wheeler and Pepper debated the issue of intervention before them. They heard Colonel Bill Donovan, recently returned from Europe as an Administration emissary, urge all-out aid to Britain. The response was extraordinary for the generally well-mannered meetings of the Federation. The galleries booed and cheered with organized isolationist efficiency...
...said an Italian communique last week. Three days later a delegation of Croats led by Poglavnik (Leader) Ante Pavelitch arrived in Rome to offer the Crown (a wreath of golden clover leaves surmounted by a cross and an apple) to anybody Italy's wry little King Vittorio Emanuele should designate. The King had a couple of cousins who were in need of work. One was the Duke of Aosta, who had just finished losing the Crown of Ethiopia for his Cousin Vittorio (see p. 37). The other was Aosta's lean, towering younger brother, Aimone, Duke of Spoleto...
...which the Federal Council of Churches' distinguished Committee to Study the Bases of a Just and Durable Peace this week began lining up the organized support of U.S. Protestantism for a revolutionary move. They did not go so far as to suggest that the U.S. should follow the Golden Rule. They did, however, propose that Congress set up a Federal agency to study the economic harm that might be done to other countries by any proposed change in U.S. foreign trade, tariff, immigration or monetary policy...