Word: journeyer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Albany, Governor Tom Dewey announced that he was air-expressing several hundred smallmouth bass fingerlings to Emperor Boo Dai of Viet Nam, Indo-China. On his journey to the far Pacific last year, the governor explained, he found that the Emperor had never fished for bass, so Dewey had promised to send enough to stock some native streams...
...JOURNEY TO THE FAR PACIFIC (335 pp.)-Thomas E. Dewey-Doubleday...
...summer of 1951, Governor Thomas E. Dewey put aside his chores at Albany and flew off on a rugged (41,000 miles, 17 countries), educative tour of the Far Pacific. His book about the trip, Journey to the Far Pacific, a Book-of-the-Month Club selection, is published this week...
...years the New England meetinghouse was as much a center of American civilization as the Gothic cathedral had been in Europe. Its hard-hewed timbers formed the foundations of a way of life that began with religious dissent and ended, after a long and interesting journey, in political democracy. To show how this process worked, Ola Elizabeth Winslow, a Pulitzer prizewinner in 1941 for her biography of Jonathan Edwards, has written Meetinghouse Hill: 1630-1783 (Macmillan; $4), published this week...
...Hitler ordered him sent to the concentration camp at Dachau. When the cardinal appeared for his journey, dressed in full regalia, his SS guards hesitated to take him through the streets of Munich, where he was universally respected. The order was rescinded and the Nazis never again openly tested their strength against him. For the next ten years he led the Catholic Church's resistance to Hitlerism, speaking out against it where most of his fellow priests (and most Protestant clergymen) were hesitant or fearful. As early as 1933 he prophesied from his pulpit: "A state based on right...