Word: mottos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Everything from sex to politics" is the motto of the Freshman Smoker Committee and, as a preliminary move, the Yardlings have invited Hedy Lamarr and Alice Faye to be featured guests...
Scripps took the State Tribune into his chain, adopted Magee's motto, "Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way," made a lighthouse Scripps-Howard's emblem. Carl Magee, who was kept in charge, typified the crusading Scripps editor of the 19203, when the Scripps newspapers from coast to coast were dedicated to cleaning up corruption. Then one day Magee was knocked down and booted about a hotel lobby by a judge whom he had accused of corruption. Magee drew a revolver, boggled his aim, killed a boy who was trying to help...
...business manager, his daughter, Helen Cadle Major, 26, office manager, his daughter, Virginia Ann, 16, director of young people's activities. Operating expenses of the Tabernacle and radio programs, which bring in 4,000 letters a week, come to $100,000 a year. The Church's motto is: "No creed but Christ, no law but love, no Book but the Bible." No donations are refused. The Cadle 1,485-voice choir is something to hear...
Surprise. At this point both France and Britain got an unpleasant surprise. Generalissimo Franco, it appeared, did not prize British and French recognition as highly as British and French statesmen thought he would. His motto was: "Recognition first, negotiations second." As to declaring an amnesty, he wanted the Loyalists' "unconditional surrender...
...Motto: Defense." Clearly Mr. Chamberlain had swapped the unpopular nag of appeasement for the glossy war-horse of rearmament, a wise move in view of the fact that 1939 is almost certainly a General Election year...