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...Christians (and Jews) everywhere realize that unless the moral forces in the world are brought to bear jointly in the cause of justice and peace, power politics in general and the cleavage between Russia and the West in particular will bring the peoples of the world to a holocaust ruinous literally for generations. Interfaith collaboration in this area is of the essence now. . . . Our duty here is plain...
...supporters looked to Yussab as the only man who could 1) salvage Coptic education and finances after centuries of ruinous monopoly by ignorant monks; 2) bring the schismatic subjects of Haile Selassie back to the Coptic fold. Yussab who has crowned Haile Selassie, planned soon to make an almost unprecedented journey to Addis Ababa to placate the Copts' only foreign ally. The 1,500,000 Copts pray that Yussab's diplomacy may avert the wave of persecution which they foresee as an outcome of a resurgent Islam...
...When the ruinous Jap air raid of May 4, 1939 flattened 25% of Chungking's downtown buildings, the Government had turned over the former Pa Hsien Middle School compound to the press. All the place ever had in its favor was its central location. Air-raid dugouts, Chiang Kai-shek's house and the Chinese Central News Agency were within half a mile...
Michael Arlen (old name: Dikran Kouyoumdjian), who bounded to fame & fortune in the early '20s with his best-dressed tales of smartly ruined women and ruinous men (The Green Hat, May Fair), and who then relaxed into well-cushioned obscurity, decided that the best was yet to be. A man's 40s and 50s are his best years, he declared, "because he knows what...
Since the steelworkers' union has no pet theories on ability to pay (see below), and since a steel strike would be ruinous and hence is almost inconceivable in the 1946 U.S. economy, there was a good chance that the fact-finding board could bring about a settlement simply as a catalytic agent. At week's end the board asked the companies and the union to reopen negotiations; it would probably soon look into the matter of steel prices...