Word: lead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three fear-crazed salesgirls stared dumbly at their personnel manager. They could not understand at first that he was saying their only chance for life was to wrap the blankets around their heads, dash downstairs through the flames. He was seen to offer to lead the way. The three salesgirls took the blankets and followed for a short distance, then their nerves cracked. Although brave Louis Frichet kept pleading with them and trying to hold them back, all three salesgirls finally, rather than face the flames, leaped off the roof to death. Alone with his blanket, the personnel manager began...
America's Town Meeting of the Air (Thurs. 9:30 p. m. NBC-Blue) opens its fourth radio season with Journalist Anne O'Hare McCormick, Columnist Hugh Samuel Johnson. Editor Felix Morley. Subject: "Where Will The Munich Settlement Lead...
Good Roman Catholics live and die by seven sacraments, which they believe were instituted by Jesus Christ. The nature of these sacraments is such that they span the full life of man, but few men could lead full enough lives to receive all seven during a lifetime. Last week, however, the news service of the National Catholic Welfare Conference (U. S. hierarchical agency) discovered a man who had-the Abbé André Durupt, chaplain of a soldiers' home at Lunéville, France...
...press, no friend to radio, treated it as a public outrage. In London, Author Wells was a little shirty, too. He said: "It was implicit in the agreement that it was to be used as fiction and not news. I gave no permission whatever for alterations that might lead to belief that it was real news...
...dramatically, small, white-haired Dean Matthews went on to explain away rationalism. Predicating his remarks with a defense of free thought, he declared that even the rationalist, who would place all faith on his own reason, was subject to the laws of probability, for human reason may not lead to truth,--may be based on false hypotheses. Moreover, some attitude must be taken toward life, for we must live; and of the several alternatives religious faith is by far the most satisfying...