Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nevada's silver-maned, paunchy Senator Pat McCarran, busily running for reelection, fortnight ago tried to turn this Western suspicion into votes. He proposed to the Senate that $7,000,000,000 worth of Government-owned war plants in eleven northeastern states be "frozen." Much Eastern reconversion would thus be halted till postwar industry could be expanded in the West and South. (Cried Massachusetts' Governor Leverett Saltonstall: "A plan characteristic of Hitler...
...arms. . . . I held the young man . . . and for a moment, he seemed to catch his breath. 'You are like an angel from Heaven,' he said . . . but I knew that it was the end. . . . We placed pennies on his eyes, and later they were replaced with silver coins by a friend of the young poet. . . . That I, or any woman who was in the house, took the coins and went off to get drunk at the nearest bar . . . I am sure is not the case...
Died. Frederic Ely Williamson, 68, onetime clerk who rose to be President of the N.Y. Central Railroad (from 1932 until his retirement last September), director of more than 50 U.S. railroads, 1936 winner of the Montclair Yale Club's silver bowl to the Yaleman "who has made his 'Y' in life"; after long illness; in Manhattan...
...Somehow," she once said, "money has always come to me when I have needed it," and somehow it came to her now. In 1922, with $1,250,000 donated by her followers, she built the huge (5,300 seats) Angelus Temple, provided it with crystal doors, a silver band, a $25,000 radio station. In the Temple her talents found full scope. Clad in white flowing robes, her hair burnished gold in the glare of the arc lights, a Bible under one arm and a bunch of red roses in the other, she exhorted the Angelenos to come...
Satan at the Seminary. They came in droves. And when Sister Aimee asked them to give in the name of the Lord, they gave generously in silver, gold, jewelry and bridgework. Once a month, Aimee later admitted, she took up a collection for herself. In the Temple's heyday it averaged $7,000. From the Lord's share she was soon able to build the $3,000,000 Lighthouse of International Foursquare Evangelism. From this seminary each year 200 or more evangelists-to-be were graduated-girt in shining armor and brandishing swords against a capering Satan...