Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Point of No Return. Since mid-1942, when the Raj last imprisoned the Mahatma, both he and his political instrument, the All-India National Congress, had declined in power. Malaria, amoebic dysentery, low blood pressure, hookworm, anemia, weak heart & kidneys had sapped his body. His wife had died. All the leading members of the Congress Working Committee had been jailed since they voted an ultimatum to Great Britain to leave India to the Indians immediately or face mass civil disobedience (Gandhi's famed, fateful "Quit India" resolution...
...idea was the brain child of the Rev. A. Ritchie Low, white pastor of the United Church, Johnson, Vt. Last fall the tense, energetic Congregational minister lived for several weeks with a Negro family in Manhattan. He wanted to find out what Negroes thought about white people. He also preached at Manhattan's big (14,000 members) Abyssinian Baptist Church, whose Pastor A. (for Adam) Clayton Powell was enthusiastic about the Negro children's visit to Vermont. So were Pastor Low's white parishioners...
Said Pastor Low: "To take white youngsters off the city streets is ordinary, but to accept Negro youngsters in the home isn't done every day. . . . It's going to be a worth-while project for us church folk who are quite content to give money and to say prayers so long as neither bring these people too close or cause us too much personal effort...
Three years ago Harvard-schooled Nicholson put some of his Tampa profits into the characterless, long unprofitable New Orleans Item. He found the office picketed the day he arrived. Other Nicholson discoveries: padded circulation, discounted advertising rates, several of the low-paid editorial staff also on the Earl Long machine payroll, a run-down plant (an Item man once raised chicks in a third-floor office...
...child. Hotchkiss reports that, among a group of married women 20 to 29 years old who used no contraceptives, only one intercourse in 202 resulted in pregnancy. Infertility is by no means an exclusive matter of stopped-up tubes, venereal disease, or poor sexual development. Some other causes: diet low in vitamins or protein, poor absorption of food, too much alcohol, too little sleep, "nervousness," infections, recent fever, thyroid and pituitary disorders, wrong kinds of vaginal douches...