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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great extent the Y. M. C. A. still suffers, in the popular mind, from the reputation it acquired during the World War, when soldiers welcomed the use of its huts but resented the attentions of its gladhanding, often sanctimonious secretaries. Latterly the Y. M. C. A. in the U. S., with its $212,000,000 in property and endowment and its $48,000,000 income, has been accused-because its high command eschews politico-economic controversy-of being socially laggard, of being a closed corporation in which working secretaries tend to become older and older. Nevertheless, if the Y. M...
...Young Men's Hebrew Association, patterned after the Y. M. C. A., is not connected with...
...were bandwagon jumpers and politicians whose attitude was, "Hell, it's not controversial, is it?" Republican Minority Leader Joseph William Martin Jr., who had signed a statement for the MRA meeting's program ("Moral Re-Armament is a great need of the day"), said: "Sure, I'm for Moral Re-Armament, whatever that is. It's just like being against...
...Most unusual kudos was awarded in Washington, D. C. by American University's Chancellor Joseph M. M. Gray, who gave an honorary LL.D. to Administrative Assistant to the Secretary of the Treasury, William H. McReynolds, chosen by 40 personnel administrators as No. 1 U. S. civil servant...
...insurance counselor named Donald Besdine, who broadcasts 55 times a week, in person and by transcription. But the arch radio-counselor of them all (in Manhattan there are some half dozen on the air) is a cagey, kinky-haired, 38-year-old ex-insurance man named Morris H. Siegel (M. H. to his 52 aides). Into M. H.'s Manhattan and Boston offices (Policyholders' Advisory Council) last year ventured some 40,000 persons with real or fancied insurance problems. Each of them paid $1 for the interview. Some 8,000 became clients-i. e., had their policies cashed...