Word: holding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...idea for Mother's Day came to Miss Jarvis on the second Sunday in May, 1907, the first anniversary of her mother's death. She persuaded a Philadelphia church to hold a special service: in a few years every church in the land was holding special services. In 1908 the Governor of Florida issued a special Mother's Day proclamation. Before he died a few years ago he called Miss Jarvis to his bedside and asked her if he had been the first Governor to get aboard the bandwagon. Tenderheartedly she said yes, but actually the Governor...
...against a radio monopoly until one is proved, there is a likelihood that Mr. McNinch will at any rate oppose the bill's domestic broadcasting provision. Hopefully the industry looks forward to Mr. McNinch's stringing along with Commissioner Case in the belief that "we had better hold on to what we have until we get something better," that U. S. broadcasting in its present state is worth holding on to and that the industry and the Commission had better go ahead together slowly...
...signed up for three years. He did it with biscuits, teaching the boys to expect one biscuit when he held up one finger, two for two, three for three. When the examining magistrate, required by island law to pass on all indentures, popped the important question, Flynn would gravely hold up three interrogating fingers, was invariably rewarded with almost hysterical assent. When his conscience hurts nowadays, Flynn recalls that many of the boys came out of the bush emaciated, ulcered, unhappy, but after a few months of British guidance could be seen spryly playing football, "healthy...
With Dick Harlow, Tom Bolles, Fred Mitchell, and Jaakko Mikkola as the featured speakers, the Varsity Club will hold its annual spring luncheon tomorrow noon at the club house...
...remedy this situation he proposes "The Memorial Church Congregation," an organization which would hold itself ready to meet "once or twice a year, and which would elect representatives who could meet with me more often to share in the formulation of policies...