Word: ran
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Taking up where he left off with Mr. Willkie two months earlier, the President ran through the memorandum point by point, challenging Powerman Willkie at almost every step. Head bent over the paper, on his desk, he was asked to raise his voice. Finally he hit the Willkie request for modification of the holding company "death sentence." That, said the President, was the heart...
...preacher tried to put them out of church and they were so annoyed that they broke the preacher's arm. As a result of that, they joined their mother who was in the county workhouse on a larceny charge. When the brothers got out they ran away from school and set up a sort of Robin Hood headquarters in the Welsh Mountains in southeastern Pennsylvania...
...There is a mission for someone: to bring material comforts, help and inspiration to the woman who labors on the farm." That was in 1907 and Horace Klein was advertising manager of a nondescript magazine called the Farmer's Wife. Its publisher was Edward A. Webb who also ran The Farmer, a poultry paper. Horace Klein carried back to St. Paul "Uncle" Henry's message and Publisher Webb decided to let his India-born, missionary-trained sister, Dr. Ella S. Webb, try her hand at missionary work among farm women. He made her editor of the Farmer...
During his researches, Dr. Jolliffe ran across a bartender who had drunk ten one-and-one-half-ounce jiggers of whiskey every day for 40 years and ate little solid food, but whose nerves were sound. Investigation revealed that the bartender poured every jigger of whiskey into a ten-ounce bar glass, filled it with milk, and drank that. The 75 ounces or so of milk thus consumed daily provided him with plenty of Vitamin...
Where Frank Bruce Robinson was born he does not know. He used to think it was New York, where he was brought up, and whence he ran away at 14, when his British father married a second wife. Next he became a licensed pharmacist in Belleville. Ont., beat the bass drum in the local Salvation Army. The president of McMaster University in Hamilton, Ont., helped him through that institution and its Bible Training School. Ordained a Baptist minister in Toronto, Robinson received a D.D. and doctorate in psychology from the College of Divine Metaphysics in Indianapolis. Beyond teaching Sunday school...