Word: months
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Moreover, the great majority of those who attended the meeting were small fry, politically and economically. Even Congress members who hold cabinet rank in Indian provinces are held down by Saint Gandhi to a salary of 500 rupees per month (non-Congress assistants get some 2,500), are forced to travel third class, refuse social invitations from the British governors. Because of these restrictions, a great sensation was caused recently when Saint Gandhi was found to have partaken of two bananas, an orange, three walnuts and a cup of boiled milk at the house of Sir John Anderson, then governor...
...pride of Patrick Cardinal Hayes, New York's "Cardinal of Charities," since its founding 18 years ago, the Catholic Charities has donated $21,000,000 to its constituent bodies, whose expenditures now total $10,000,000 a year. Its 1938 drive, announced last week to begin late this month, will...
...Last month Bishop Manning enlisted as a potent ally New York City's Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia, who assumed the chairmanship of the campaign and announced that during the Fair he wishes to promote a "great series of Sacred Concerts in the Cathedral." Beamed the bishop: "People elsewhere speak of [New York] sometimes as a place wholly given up to material and worldly interests. But where, I ask, is there any other city in our land whose mayor has come forward with such a proposal as this?" Last week, at a meeting of Mayor LaGuardia's fund- raising...
...Grace. Assessed at $38,000 and owned by a Manhattan bank, the kingdom was first offered to the Divineites, but their agent, named "Blessed Purin Heart," balked at paying more than $16,000. Bishop Grace paid down $2,000 in cash, contracted to pay $18,000 more within a month...
Last year the Berlineys moved to Toledo, where Mike took a job with a manufacturer but set up a small laboratory of his own. In a few months Bessie had hit on a concoction for synthetic ice which at last suited her completely. She christened it "Iceolite" but has refused to name its ingredients, except to say there are 16, of which one is a vegetable oil and one a silicate. Last month a small, 600-sq. ft. rink in Toledo's Civic Auditorium was paved with the stuff and several crack skaters performed...