Word: meets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...religious man, therefore I cherish America where I am free to worship as I please . . . and I suspect that 999 out of almost any 1,000 colored Americans you meet will tell you the same thing. But that doesn't mean that we're going to stop fighting race discrimination in this country until we've got it licked . . . We can win our fight without the Communists and we don't want their help...
...firing continued. Scott won his first skirmish with Republican rebels at the Omaha harmony and hair-pulling meeting last winter, when he got a 54 to 50 "vote of confidence" (TIME, Feb. 7). Since then he had been trying to find a platform that everybody could stand on, while critics thought he should have been out raising money. Congressmen felt that they, not he, should do the thinking about issues. As the wrangling increased, contributions dropped off: in the first five months of this year the committee had raised only $73,630 to meet expenses of $313,673A group...
...directors of Anglo-Iranian Oil Co., Ltd. meet in the cream-walled board room of London's Britannic House. They sit around an oval mahogany table beneath a huge, hanging globe of the world which helps them follow Anglo-Iranian's worldwide operations. This week, they were there for the company's 40th annual meeting. With a Scottish twinkle, gaunt, grey Sir William Eraser, for eight years Anglo-Iranian's chairman and operating head, imparted the good news: Anglo-Iranian had turned in 1948 earnings of ?50.7 million ($204.3 million) before taxes, the biggest...
...religious liberty." These countries, said, are going through a total social, economic, and political transformation, and the churches "could not serve as a shelter for those who wish to retreat to the old social order." In short, "the judgment of God lies upon the churches for having failed to meet the needs of the broad masses of people throughout the world...
...Male Animal. In Springfield, Mo., Mrs. Pauline Suggs filed suit for divorce because her husband put an ad in the paper describing himself as a "lonely gentleman wishing to meet a nice lady, 35-40 years...