Word: mets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...find out just what kind of a jury trial compromise could get past the Senate. He talked to Southern Senators-Georgia's Richard Russell, Mississippi's John Stennis, North Carolina's Sam Ervin-and gauged the intensity of their reaction. That night Lyndon and Sam met secretly: the Senate, said Lyndon, would probably accept 30 days in jail and a $200 fine as the dividing line between judicial decree and jury trials in criminal contempt cases having to do with voting rights...
Back at Work. In Greensboro, N.C., while the doctors fretted back in Decatur, Margaret met Connecticut Dog Trainer Ted Young Jr., who, for such a good customer, had obligingly responded to a long-distance call and had driven some 630 miles south to pick up her dogs for safekeeping. She kept the most valuable cocker. Rise and Shine; surprisingly, she included Capital Gains among those sent to Connecticut. Bidding the servants farewell, abandoning the furniture vans, Margaret and Sheila Joy drove north to Baltimore, then west to Oklahoma. The FBI put out a nationwide alarm...
...quantity for two years. Damascus itself was calm in the summer sunshine, but whether Syria's plain citizens realized it or not (the heavily censored press gave them little to go on), their country was the No. 1 topic in chancelleries and foreign offices around the world. Cabinets met to consider Syria; her neighbor Arab nations hurried into consultation. Some trigger-happy U.S. radio commentators, grappling by the hour with a confused and shifting political story, helped confuse it further by proclaiming that Syria was already Russia's newest satellite...
Theme of the assembly was "Christ Frees and Unites," and on the stage of the 10,000-seat Minneapolis Auditorium the message was spelled out in the conference's three languages-English, German, Scandinavian. The assembly met each day in plenary session, then split up for separate discussion groups and meetings for visitors-which also included tours of Minnesota farms, a youth rally, a children's festival and $100,000 worth of exhibits on youth work, evangelism, other church activities. Most of all, the Lutherans focused their attention on the great leaders of their faith, who are among...
...There can be no rights without duties," he told the 1951 Zionist Congress. "What is a Zionist and what is simply a Jew wishing to assist the state? A Zionist must come to Israel himself as an immigrant. Today's Zionists have not met their test...