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...Pittsburgh, Philip Murray, pious and progressive captain of the Committee for Industrial Organization's drive to unite U. S. steelworkers in one big industrial union, announced that new recruits to date totaled 82,315, cried that the re-election of Roosevelt was a signal to "go forward...
This piece of elephantine German clever ness came to naught when pious little Chancellor Schuschnigg never did show up on the station platform and disgruntled General Goring climbed into his sleeping car berth grunting curses at von Papen's scheme. Unknown to the Germans and as a complete surprise to most Austrians, Dr. Schuschnigg was engaged in seizing supreme power for himself and his following of Catholic bigwigs by a drastic Cabinet decree in effect making the Chancellor a Dictator. He was able to make this move because the 120,000 irregular "troops" of the Austrian Heimwehr had fortnight...
...presidents Brown has had since 1764 were all Baptist ministers. A pious Methodist layman, big, bespectacled Educator Wriston was born in Laramie, Wyo., 47 years ago, went to Wesleyan University (Middletown, Conn.), got a Ph.D. in History at Harvard, returned to teach at Wesleyan. During the War he had a desk job with the Connecticut State Council of Defense, became a full professor at Wesleyan before being called to Lawrence...
Last March The New Republic carried a searching disquisition into automobile accidents, made no mention of drunken driving as a cause. For this omission it was soundly berated by that pious, prohibitionist magazine, The Christian Advocate. Three weeks ago The New Republic replied editorially: "The reason we did not mention it in our earlier discussion was that our article was confined to the major factors in the annual death toll, which is now running to about 38,000 annually, and we were not and are not aware that drunkenness is one of these factors. The Travelers Insurance Co. . . . while recognizing...
...Written in the '80s, according to legend, by Undergraduate Edwin K. Buttolph, who took the name Levi from his pious schoolmaster father, Solomon from Father Buttolph's partner in the Cleveland Female Seminary...