Word: holderness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week for the first time set up a separate department of religion. NBC's fast-growing religious mail helped convince NBC, whose public-service director is James Rowland Angell, that the company's religious activities ought to be separated from its educational office. Holder of the new separate portfolio, charged with making NBC religious broadcasting a potent factor in the war effort, is tall, cadaverous, 47-year-old Max Jordan...
...protégé of ex-Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, Eden is the son of the late Sir William Eden, seventh holder of a baronetcy dating back to 1672. In World War I he rose from a second lieutenant at 18 to a major at 21. He received the Military Cross, one of the Army's highest awards for gallantry. Winston Churchill called him "the one fresh figure of magnitude" which survived and arose out of the slaughter of Britain's finest young...
...news correspondents in North Africa were flown secretly to Casablanca for a press conference* on the tenth day. They found well-pleased Franklin Roosevelt in the garden of the villa where he had stayed: he was comfortable in a light grey suit, the angle of his long cigaret holder was even jauntier than usual...
...last October that a mob of men broke with suspicious ease into the strong Laurel, Miss. jail and snatched up Howard Wash, dark and worried because he had killed his white employer in alleged self-defense. The mob brushed politely past Deputy Sheriff Holder, past the open steel doors and heavy bars. They took Howard Wash away with them to Welborn's Bridge and left him there-hanging limp like a broken crow, his slack toes pointed down at the drying creek...
...excited now by the new indictment. It would all, they thought, kinda peter out. But a new spirit was stirring among some of Mississippi's thoughtful citizens about America's worst national disgrace, and chances this week seemed better than ever that complaisant Deputy Sheriff Holder and the lynch mob might really feel the hand of the law they had flouted. If so, to Governor Johnson and courageous Editor Harriet S. Gibbons of the Leader-Call would go a considerable share of the credit...