Word: originated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...measures proposed are of human origin and therefore fallible. But the purposes sought are divine." Thus was the New Deal described last week by the Federal Council of Churches in a message addressed to 110,000 pastors of 25 Christian sects...
Meanwhile President Roosevelt, sweltering in the White House Blue Room which lacks the cooling facilities of his regular office, was at work on more measures, fallible in origin but divine in purpose. NRA make-over took much of his time. General Johnson had gone off to Bethany Beach, Del. for a two-week rest and left the President's ear open to Donald Richberg and Madam Secretary Perkins. So significant did newshawks deem the situation that some reported the General's resignation while others telephoned to Bethany Beach to ask him whether he had had a break with his associates...
...There must," cried Dr. Krause, "be an end to the state of affairs in which the most objectionable race on earth, the Jews, are represented as The Chosen People. The 'Aryan Clause' must be applied finally and rigorously. Pastors of Jewish origin ought to go where they belong, to the synagogue! (Loud cheers...
Leaving aside water walls of earthquake origin, skyscraper waves are piled up by steady gales blowing over a great expanse of deep sea. Once formed, such waves may continue their majestic roll until broken up by slackening wind or shallow water. Loftiest ocean wave mentioned in encyclopedic discussions of the subject is a 70-footer reported by the Majestic's, officers twelve years ago. At tales of bigger ones scientists and seamen are inclined to scoff...
ZAHAROFF: HIGH PRIEST OF WAR-Guiles Davenport-Lothrop, Lee & Shepard ($3). The origin, private life and political intrigues of the "mystery man" of the international munitions business by an excited U. S. journalist...