Word: pray
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...months died. Our rich, generous and purportedly Christian Church granted his widow a pension of $27.60 per month . . . Our Episcopal Church tells the widow of a priest to live on $6.50 per week ... on less than $1.00 a day. God pity us; for her we need not pray...
...London's Savoy Hotel last week, the staid Abraham Lincoln Room seethed with such important people as cabinet ministers, the Lord Mayor and U.S. Ambassador Lewis Douglas. They had all come to do homage to a national figure. Cried a scarlet-liveried herald, announcing the guest of honor: "Pray silence for Mr. Danny Kaye...
...plant, he said warningly, "Thank you for your cooperation. I hope you will work for a healthy labor union." To coal miners, he appealed, "I should like to ask you to produce much more." To the children of the Catholic Holy Mother Orphanage at Omura, he admonished, "Work hard, pray to Jesus Christ, and grow to be good...
...Pray for Grace. Both the CCC and most farmers had been counting on Congress to authorize emergency storage. But it appeared that the 81st Congress, like its predecessor, would not do anything in time to be of much help. The House had passed a conference bill which would let the CCC build more storage facilities, but last week the Senate turned it down, ostensibly on a technicality. (Oklahoma's Elmer Thomas charged it was torpedoed by private grain storage interests...
...storage bins., Not many had done so. Most farmers would have to look, as they had always done, to the country elevators-and soon they would have to look elsewhere. Many farmers would have no place to put their wheat but on the ground, and nothing to do but pray that rain, rats and rot would spare...