Word: martin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...MARTIN...
...Bishop George K. A. Bell of Chicester, England led a group of delegates who thought it wishy-washy. West Germany's Evangelical Lutheran Bishop Hanns Lilje of Hannover sounded off against "trying to be friends with everybody." Also for a tougher document: West Germany's famed Pastor Martin Niemöller. At week's end the Central Committee had passed the report along to a subcommittee and was preparing for decisions on 1) a proposed merger with the 36-year-old International Missionary Council, made up of Protestant regional mission associations throughout the world; 2) "racial...
...hours practicing before she began transcribing. She chose TIME to copy because she likes it, and thought blind readers would appreciate its flavor and news coverage. This week's cover story on Canada's Prime Minister John Diefenbaker will be her 23rd. She began copying with the Martin Luther King story (Feb. 18), missed the Birdie Tebbetts cover (July 8) because she and her husband (who is president of a Chicago paper company) were on vacation. Many of her blind readers are avid baseball fans, and she plans to catch up on Tebbetts...
...press conference to report the President was still behind the bill. Then he went off to the White House to discover that the President was not about to issue any ringing endorsements. Next day Ike's position became clearer. Leaving a White House conference, House Minority Leader Joe Martin reported the President "not entirely satisfied" with the compromise. But, said Martin: "I think that in all probability the Administration will accept it as a starter if passed by Congress...
...multimillion-dollar project to build Brooklyn's big 2,496-unit Farragut Gardens, since renamed Vandeveer Estates. After convincing the Federal Housing Administration that the housing project would cost $24 million, Builders Morris Kavy, Martin and Louis Benedek and Alexander and Henry Hirsch got a mortgage guarantee for $21.7 million, spent $18.1 million and pocketed all but $500,000 of the remaining $3.6 million as windfall profits. Settling out of court last week, they agreed to pay back $2,000,000. In return, the Government will return control of the project to the owners...