Word: labrador
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John R. Mott and Dr. Robert Elliott Speer, prime exponents of the evangelism for which East Northfield stands today; Sir John Edward Kynaston Studd, who as a Cambridge student was converted by Evangelist Moody; Sir Wilfred Grenfell, who was inspired to work as a medical missionary in Labrador by the U. S. man of God; Dwight Moody's only surviving son, Paul Dwight, now 57, forceful president of Middlebury (Vt.) College, successor to his late brother, William Revell Moody, as director of the East Northfield conferences...
...chairman of the New York Reserve Bank. Last winter Reserve Board Chairman Marriner Eccles ap-Brothers and Floyd Bostwick Odium's Atlas Corp. in the Paramount reorganization. Mr. Fortington quit after a split on an involved question of profit-sharing arrangements with theatre operators, departed for Labrador, where he owns a salmon river. Whether Joe Kennedy has any suggestions for resignations will not be known until his final report is published. More comforting to the directors would be suggestions of likely candidates for the Paramount command in the meantime...
Profoundly grieved, Governor Blanton Winship of Puerto Rico journeyed from San Juan to the summer palace at Jajome Alto to bury his favorite Labrador, Black Jack...
Describing through the use of actual picture slides the hardships and privations encountered by the Esquimaux of Labrador in their daily life, Sir Wilfred Grenfell, world famous founder and promoter of the Grenfell Mission, explained last night to a large audience in Phillips Brooks House the nature and extent of difficulties faced by doctors and nurses who devote their lives to humanitarian work among the natives...
...stated that it had often seemed to him unkind "to prolong a life unless we can make it worth while." However, he pointed out that the natives are by nature a very hardy race and added that he had known of only one suicide during his entire experience in Labrador...