Word: holding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Quiet by nature, unobtrusive by preference, Robert Fechner had 'hardly taken hold at CCC before he got into a first-class stink. The Affair of the Toilet Kits in June 1933 concerned a persuasive salesman who got Louis Howe to get Robert Fechner to pay an outrageous price for 200,000 handybags. Although Franklin Roosevelt himself had casually endorsed the salesman, loyal Mr. Fechner took the blows from Congress. That body in 1937 repaid him by cutting his $12,000 salary to $10,000. (Mrs. Norton's bill would restore...
Contrary to general belief, Presbyterians and Episcopalians hold the same beliefs about ordination and the apostolic succession of the ministry (from the original Apostles). Presbyterians simply believe that their ministers are the same as bishops, since they are ordained by presbyteries acting in an episcopal capacity. Not all Episcopalians, however, believe that the Presbyterians' apostolic succession is valid-just as Roman Catholics deny the Episcopal validity. At present, a Presbyterian minister wishing to enter the Episcopal priesthood must be reordained. And last week many a Presbyterian suspected that the proposed "commissioning" service, which would involve the laying...
...seven buoyant seat packs, which had not been issued until after the ship struck. One man passenger, unable to swim, was struck by wreckage as he left the ship, and drowned. A steward, held in the terrified ring where the survivors hung around their seat cushions, finally lost his hold and was drowned...
Pinansky, who lived in Lowell House while he was in college, was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, of the Law Review, and hold four scholarships in college plus several in Law School including the Sears prize and the Detur award...
Retorted Madam Secretary: "It may interest you to know that one of my specialties is relieving tension. ... I hold pretty moderate views on [labor problems] and when I have an opportunity to discuss them I find that I generally allay suspicion and even modify ill-will and dislike...