Word: jeremiahs
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...Like Jeremiah warning against strange gods, Author Werfel warns modern man of the perils of materialism. This evil, he declares, is responsible both for the U.S. conception of the state as an insurance company, and for the German belief in National Socialism. Without faith in God, man seeks security elsewhere...
...President George N. Shuster, of Hunter College; President Harry D, Gideonse of Brooklyn College; Raymond Leslie Buell, former president of the Foreign Policy Association; Major George Fielding Eliot, John W. Vandercook and Sydney Moseley, commentators; Harry Scherman, president of the Book-of-the-Month Club; former Supreme Court Justice Jeremiah T. Mahoney; the Rev. Robert W. Searle, general secretary of the Greater New York Federation of Churches; Robert J. Watt, international representative of the American Federation of Labor...
...Gangster Jeremiah Sullivan, 46, last week gave a New York Supreme Court judge a tough question to ponder. Strongarm man Sullivan, convicted of coercion, asked that a three-year reformatory sentence be changed to a one-year straight prison term. Reminding the court that he lost his civil rights when he was found guilty of second-degree murder in 1918, ex-Convict Sullivan contended: "You cannot reform a person who has no rights...
...Tacks and nails were all made by hand: Thomas Jefferson kept a dozen nail makers busy at Monticello all the time, and it took as many man-hours to forge the nails for a house as it did to build it. Jeremiah Wilkinson's 1776 "invention"-putting a dozen headless tacks in a vise and hammering them all with one blow-was the talk of Rhode Island, and it was not until 1850 that a machine was invented to make "horse nails" tough enough to supplant the blacksmith...
...modern New Deal the prophet Jeremiah seems to prefer to be his own spokesman at the weekly press conferences. However, the lack of coherence which would lead to the assumption of plurality of authorship still befuddles the minds...