Word: normans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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November 18--The New Testament. Dr. Norman B. ash, Paine Professor of Christian Social Ethics in Episcopal Theological School...
...first day in Washington was devoted to conferences with Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Roving Ambassador Norman Hezekiah Davis and Chairman Joseph P. Kennedy of the Maritime Commission. Members of the Cabinet hurried up to the White House for their first meeting in several weeks. After the meeting, Secretaries Wallace, Ickes and Roper hurried to the Carlton Hotel for a special showing of the MARCH of TIME newsreel's current issue on the War in China. A few minutes after the President left the Executive Offices for the day, a three, sentence statement on the war was released...
...laps around the football field of Los Angeles' Loyola High School. In 1934 Oilman Earl Gilmore built a stadium for midgets at a cost of $134,000. The Gilmore track was soon drawing crowds as large as 9,000, and shortly thereafter a onetime Hearst cameraman named Norman Alley opened a track in Chicago. Although Promoter Alley at first claimed that there was no money in the sport, the following year he proceeded to sign up on long-term contracts most of the leading drivers appearing on a mushrooming series of Midwest tracks. Madison Square Garden, prime barometer...
...terrace of the Roosevelt house marched a parade of important visitors. As they came out, after talking to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, there was gloomy information for the press. Said Financier Bernard Baruch, just back from abroad: "Europe is a tinderbox. Anything can happen." Said ordinarily cheerful Ambassador-at-Large Norman H. Davis, of the situation in general: "I can't see anything that is very promising." With two wars and a stockmarket slump to worry about between visitors, Franklin Delano Roosevelt presently absorbed his callers' point of view...
...Benjamin Brewster of Maine. hates War, Fascism, deplores Capitalism, is on record for the Spanish Leftists. Next month when the Episcopal Church holds its triennial General Convention in Cincinnati, the C. L. I. D. plans to hold a sideshow series of meetings, with speeches by such people as Socialist Norman Thomas (a Presbyterian minister), the C. I. O.'s Homer Martin (onetime Baptist preacher), Howard ("Buck") Kester of the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union (Baptist minister), Negro Lawrence Oxley of the U. S. Department of Labor, Roger Baldwin of the American Civil Liberties Union...