Word: offerings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bustamante cold-shouldered an Aprista delegation that called to offer him support. Instead, after a scuffle a few days later in Lima's market place, his police arrested 15 men, four of them La Tribuna staffers, and charged them with trying to start a food riot. Intent on his middle way, Bustamante wanted to make clear that he would be just as tough with Apristas as he had been with right-wing plotters...
...Master. For a while, he earned a living as an assistant to a coffin maker. But he still plugged away at his sculpture. One day an old man with a flowing beard called on him to congratulate him on a statue he had seen. "I have come to offer my assistance. My name," the old man added, "is Rodin...
...Democratic Convention takes the top spot this week on the four radio networks and 18 television stations. The four television networks, NBC (with LIFE), CBS, ABC and Du Mont, will again offer sidelights, speculation, scorekeeping, interviews and convention color; the TV stations will again pool resources for maximum coverage of doings on the floor of Convention Hall. The sideshows will get under way on Thursday, the main event on Monday evening, with Senator Barkley's keynote address...
...convent in Rome, Berenson likes his high remoteness from a world which he thinks is becoming more & more authoritarian. "I dread a world state run by biologists and economists ... by whom no life would be tolerated that didn't contribute to an economic purpose . . . Art can offer the surest escape from the tedium of threatening totalitarianism. It mustn't be reckless, freakish, fantastic, but must console and ennoble...
...There are no dues, meetings or committees. Members are asked to look up the 17th chapter of Exodus, then do their best to play Aaron and Hur to their minister, rabbi, priest-or even doctor, teacher or friend. "It may be only a sincere word of commendation or an offer to help in a tight spot. When you have done this twice yourself, you may nominate another person for membership. Write your nominee . . . and always remember that Jesus said: 'Take heed that ye do not your alms before...