Word: prays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sion to the Vatican (reason: war?). Before leaving, he gave his $500,000 villa in Florence to the Pope, Vatican circles laconically reported that Mr. Taylor carried back to the President an auto graphed photograph of the Pope, together with His Holiness' assurance that he would continue to pray for the soul of the President's late mother, Sara Delano Roosevelt...
This was the most far-reaching pledge the President had yet made. It was a final repudiation of peace negotiations of any kind preceding the destruction of Naziism. Said the President, bitterly: "[A few appeasers and Nazi sympathizers] even ask me to negotiate with Hitler-to pray for crumbs from his victorious table. They do, in fact, ask me to become the modern Benedict Arnold and betray all I hold dear-my devotion to our freedom-to our churches-to our country. This course I have rejected-I reject it again...
...Meridian, Miss., Mayor Clint Vinson called on his fellow townsmen to pray for world peace every day at noon, ordered the city waterworks' whistle blown to remind them...
...face unemployment within two weeks. In Burlington, N.C., for example, a shutdown would affect 6,000 workers, ultimately cut off almost all the town's income. Mill managers planned 1) to stretch silk operations with substitutes in welt and feet, and with a three-day week, 2) to pray for early arrival of fine rayon, and that women will buy rayon hose, 3) to urge Du Pont to relax its rule that nylon hose can contain no rayon or cotton. Half North Carolina's mills can knit nylon, but as yet only...
They amassed old books, rifles, farm tools, wagons, toys, wax fruit, chamber pots. They salvaged the whole floor of a barn because members of an early German-American sect had knelt on its boards to pray. When a neighboring hotel was torn down, Henner and George Landis bought its whole barroom. But Henner and George Landis were not antique dealers, never sold so much as a darning needle. They just collected things as a hobby...