Word: riches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eucharistic gatherings always do a number of acts of public faith for crowds of men, women and children, focused primarily on the missionary character of the Church, today filled with new zeal. Thus one of the members of Cardinal Dougherty's official entourage was Joseph Lo Pa Hong, rich Chinese Catholic charitarian of Shanghai, and a Solemn High Mass on the Luneta which drew 40,000 women was celebrated by Bishop Januarius Hayasaki of Nagasaki, Japan. Altogether there went to Manila a score of Oriental prelates as well as a dozen U. S. bishops and archbishops...
...communicates by horse cars. It presents a village-like appearance, as most of its houses are on circled by large gardens. Harvard College stands in its midst a cluster of very hideous rectangular red brick buildings, with two or three others, less unsightly, of grey stone. Its library is rich in old historical works relating to America, but scarcely any manuscripts' in fact manuscripts are scarcely to be found in any public collections in the United States. The library is suffering from lack of funds, and is therefore sadly different in the literature of the last ten years...
Sweet as they are, earnings are not the only thing the roads have to show for their five years' ordeal. For, heading out of the Depression in 1937, the U. S. railroads find themselves today not so rich in materials as they were in 1929, but far richer in resource and morale. A ringside spectator at 17 years of railroad history is Joseph Bartlett Eastman, a member of the Interstate Commerce Commission since 1919, and the New Deal's erstwhile Coordinator of Transportation. Skeptical about private ownership as he is, nevertheless he told the Boston Chamber of Commerce...
...decided that Milton Work's was the best. When he saw the Culbertsons beat this system he suffered the pangs of the defeated. His forehead cupped with silver hair, tall, mild, bespectacled Mr. Hoxsey afforded Senator Wheeler a perfect contrast to Richard Whitney, who looks more like a rich broker than rich brokers usually look...
...community by serving on the :own council. A natural point of pressure from both the haves and the havenots, Jim runs into his first dilemma when the town's poor folk and laborers want him to authorize construction of a needless high school, while the town's rich folk warn him that he had better not do anything o raise taxes. The boycott on his store which follows Jim's honest decision on the high school affair is nothing to the anguish of his next difficulty...