Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Missionary. Pope concluded that many Africans do not expect much help from the missions on the road to equality. "In fact, they often look upon the missions as in the camp of the opposition, due to the white control of the mission program and arrangements whereby governments support mission schools...
...Ideas. Co-chairman of the Workshop with Snyder, and a recognized leader in the field of religious radio, is energetic, balding Everett C. Parker, 36. He was working for a radio station in Chicago when a Methodist minister asked him to help get a sponsor for a religious show. Parker became so interested in the field that he began experimenting with new program ideas, ended by getting 152 churches to cooperate in a regular broadcast. Parker quit his job to study for the ministry, was ordained a Congregational pastor in 1943, and began to devote his full time...
...must be free and not warped to fit an irrelevant plan...To the extent that they are prostituting their, sciences in this direction, the Russians will be the losers." But, he added wistfully, "we shall lose some also, because they are excellent scientists, and they with us could help so much in the great scientific attacks on the ignorance, diseases, and the poverty...
...social mistake," they can do nothing about it: "The Soviet version of the moment is the worst, because the affliction is nationwide. I wish I had some assurance the malady were transitory...We cannot condone the Soviet infringement," he concluded, but "perhaps in some way we can help them discover the error and ultimate futility of their policy...
Thanks to Television. With help from Boyd, and such other horse-opera stars as Roy Rogers and Gene Autry, one retailer estimated the trade would sell upwards of 40 million pieces of Western gear this year. About half of all boys' furnishings will have a Western touch. Though the boom has been building for several years, one big reason for the sudden upsurge is television. Unable to get current movies, TV stations have resurrected hundreds of old-fashioned Westerns...