Word: heir
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...things better illustrate the reason U.S. churches do not enjoy a more impressive leadership in American life than heir shilly-shallying about the war. In he eight months since Pearl Harbor, only one major denomination (the United Lutheran Church) has placed itself unequivocally behind the U.S. war effort. Yet no major church has had the courage to take the opposite stand, and state unequivocally that the church's job is religion...
They clucked approval of the farmers, and of handsome, diligent Robert Spear Hudson, 56-year-old heir of a soap fortune, who has proved himself Britain's most effective Minister of Agriculture in this century. Together Hudson and the farmers have accomplished near-miracles with Britain's tradition-ridden and big-business-ridden agriculture. In three years they have...
Richard Joshua Reynolds Jr., multi-millionaire tobacco heir (Camels), got leaves of absence as Mayor of Winston-Salem, N.C. and treasurer of the Democratic National Committee, to join the Navy...
...Atlanta pen went the late Huey Long's onetime social tutor and short-time political heir, bald Seymour Weiss, paroled after serving about half of his 30-month sentence for mail fraud...
...ability to wear clothes in keeping with one's budget" is the Fashion Academy's chief requirement for a place on its annual "best-dressed" list. Among last week's winners: Mrs. Wendell Willkie, Betsey Gushing Roosevelt Whitney (bride of "Jock," heir to $27,000,000), Cosmetiqueen Elizabeth Arden, Cinestar Paulette Goddard...