Word: nya
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...NYA, Johnson put some 20,000 young men to work at such jobs as building and beautifying the state's roadside parks-and he built up a respectable political following which he used as a springboard in 1937 to run for the House of Representatives. Johnson won over nine opponents, and, even before going to Washington, made another great and good friend: Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Fishing in Galveston Bay, F.D.R. heard of the young man who had just been elected on the odd-in conservative Texas -platform of support for Roosevelt's plan to pack the Supreme Court...
BISHOP ALOYSIUS BIGIRUMWANI, Apostolic Vicar of Ruanda Urundi (bordering on the Belgian Congo), is a descendant of the kings of the famed Watutsi tribe of giants. From a mountaintop mission at Nyundo, overlooking Lake Kivu and the flaring volcanoes of Nyiragongo and Nya-mulagira. tall (6 ft. 3 in.) Bishop Bigi-rumwani, 53, directs five white bishops and 471 priests, both white and Negro. Since his consecration in 1952, 20,000 converts have joined the church in his own diocese, but two-thirds of the half-million tribesmen in the territory he administers as senior bishop are still pagan...