Word: joys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sharing Driver Egan's joy was Owner Charles W. Phellis, retired Du Pont bigwig, who has raised trotters for 40 years, has had four previous starters in the Hambletonian (entry fee for each starter is around $1,000). Spencer Scott brought him his first victory...
Some others distrust the change but few Americans can distrust the spirit with which Editor White outlines the job of his Committee after the war is over, win, lose or draw: "We shall try then to give to American youth the same joy and enthusiasm for freedom of speech, peaceful assemblage, free conscience, trial by jury and the benefits of personal freedom that the Germans have put into their youth by teaching them national pride, race arrogance, and international hatred. We be lieve this is our really big job, bigger than saving Britain as our first line of defense...
There was no joy in Congress last week as word quickly wound through the Capitol corridors that North Carolina's well-loved Representative Lindsay Carter Warren had finally accepted Franklin Roosevelt's thrice-offered appointment as Comptroller General. With long faces his colleagues pumped Lindsay Warren's hand saying: "Congratulations, Lindsay, but damn you for taking the job." In the House press gallery reporters paid a rare tribute-started a collection for a farewell present...
...strange religions the U. S. has a capacity boundless as its hope and gullibility. Most cockeyed cult of all is the Mighty I AM Presence. Last week I AM's leaders were filled with anything but Joy and Bliss. Indicted in Los Angeles (U. S. crazy-cult headquarters) for mail frauds were 24 of them, headed by Mrs. Edna Wheeler Ballard ("alias Joan of Arc, Jesus and Lotus Ray King") and Donald Ballard ("alias Edona Eros, Robin Hood and Lafayette...
Albert Kahn is a small, merry, 71-year-old architectural genius who spent his youth in a penny-pinching struggle to support an immigrant family of ten (including an impractical Rabbi father). He was 34 when the late Henry B. Joy, president of young Packard Motor Car Co., walked in and asked him to design a factory...