Word: heard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...himself. His loose-woven little empire (now grown to six mills employing 1,372 in Maine, Vermont. Massachusetts and New Hampshire) never became a major factor in the industry, but it gave him the funds to begin major investments in real estate in mid-Depression. One day he heard that Western Union wanted to build on a choice block near the financial district, so he bought a corner building as a toe hold, quietly worked out a deal with Western Union to pick up the rest of the property on percentage. His profit...
...people in the U.S. to believe Adlai Stevenson's statements that he would not run again for President, consequently kept Stevenson's name off the Gallup poll of 1960 Democratic presidential possibilities. It would, the pollsters said, only distort the count for the real candidates. But Gallup heard so much Stevenson talk that he put him back on, last week put out a report that showed Stevenson at the head of the pack with 23%. The contenders, and their changes in standing since last November...
...clerk in Warren, "I would have said that Ward and Finkbeiner were wasting their time trying to run against Faubus. But now I don't know." With issues clearly laid out and personalities amply identified, Arkansas voters last week got set to hear more-and the more they heard the more it appeared that front-running Orval Faubus was going to have to run hard and fast...
Winding up their eight-day meeting in Pittsburgh last week, the 1,200 delegates to the first General Assembly of the brand-new United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (TIME, June 9) heard these notable recommendations: <| From 2,000 to 2,500 additional ministers should be recruited by 1970, seminary capacity must be doubled, and $25 million must be spent on new churches and seminaries within the next ten years. EUR| More proselyting energy should be expended on Jews. "We would remind our people," said a commission report, "since most Jews are such in name only, that in a spirit...
...shouts grew louder and nearer, as each group came up it went pelting along to the shouting men in front, and the shouting was louder and louder as the crowds increased. Xenophon mounted his horse, and took Lycios with his horsemen, and galloped to bring help. Soon they heard the soldiers shouting 'Sea! Sea!' and passing the word along . . . When they all reached the summit then they embraced each other, captains and officers and all, with tears running down their cheeks...