Word: mille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drawling Lister Hill, who coon-shouted the nomination of Franklin Roosevelt for Term III at Chicago, fought for his U.S. Senate seat against well-to-do, sad-faced James Simpson, 54, banker, corporation lawyer, respected state legislator. With "white supremacy" as a shrill battle cry, Birmingham's moneyed, mill-owning, New Deal-hating "Big Mules" got behind Candidate Simpson and pushed hard. So did the Negro-baiting Alabama Sun and Alabama Magazine, whose specialty is pictures showing Eleanor Roosevelt being civil to Negroes. Simpson campaigners vigorously lambasted Lister Hill as a traitor to Southern ideals, a tool of Washington...
...became young Holmes's great passion. In the course of his law studies he visited John Stuart Mill-whose philosophy came closest to a jurisprudence based not on precedents but on what Holmes called "the felt necessities of the time...
...pockets bursting with mill-gotten gains, a new class of theatre-goers may force a perceptible change upon American drams, Katherine Cornell, one of America's foremost actresses, said last Saturday in her dressing room at the close of the first week's run of "Lovers and Friends...
...years, a bishop for 43, a cardinal for 33, the prelate's life was a series of successive honors conferred by his Church. Born in Lowell, the eleventh and youngest child of poor and pious Irish parents, young O'Connell began his career in a textile mill. But after one hour's work he heard God's voice: "Child, this is not thy place." His place, he decided, was in the Church...
Elmer left the mill, went beekeeping in Enniskillen Township, saved and saved. By 1919 Ethel felt that he had saved enough. But now Elmer hung back. He had got religion, felt that marriage to the unconverted Ethel would not be blessed in heaven. Still they kept company...