Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clerk read, Mrs. Norton took a large American Beauty rose, labeled "Huey Pierce Long," from a small page and placed it in a large silver vase furnished for the occasion by a florist. One by one, as the roll of the dead was called, she added six other roses labeled Thomas David Schall, R. Garden, Charles Vilas , Truax, Henry Mahlon Kimball, Wesley Lloyd, Stephen Andrew Rudd...
Hero Prince. Reich War Minister von Blomberg last week stole Austria's greatest war hero. In all German garrison towns was read a proclamation setting forth, on the 200th anniversary of the death of great Prince Eugene of Savoy, that Eugene was a Pan-German hero who had saved Germany from the "predatory greed" and "plundering, burning and murdering armies" of France's Louis...
...Charles Jaynes, pastor in Detroit of a foursquare Gospel Church affiliated with Aimee Semple McPherson's organization has a chubby 6-year-old son. Charles Jaynes Jr. eats spinach, practices on his violin, cannot read. In Shreveport, La. last Sunday night, Preacher Jaynes wiped his small moppet's nose, led him out before a good-sized congregation. Not the father but the son began beating the pulpit with a childish fist, pointing a small finger to heaven and piping in a clear treble : "Man has a two-fold nature. He is both a material and a spiritual being...
...Catholics. Consecrated in Davenport by the august Apostolic Delegate to the U. S., Most Rev. Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, Bishop Adrian later recalled how he had learned of his impending elevation : "There among my letters was a communication from the Holy See. With trembling fingers I opened it and read: 'The Holy Father has in mind to choose you Bishop of Nashville.' I was so overwhelmed with wonder that I could read no farther. I can only say that I am still wondering how it came to pass that I was chosen...
...banker, whose exploits in dementia during his criminal trial three years ago scarcely equaled those by which he put his Harriman National Bank & Trust Co. into the red and finally into receivership in 1933. As prison librarian at Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary, Convict Harriman had ample opportunity last week to read in the Press of the embarrassments his bank caused in Wall Street before its collapse. He had, he discovered, caused a legal battle which would make U. S. banking history whatever the outcome...