Word: slighted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...over to his personal physician, Dr. Everett Colgate Jessup. They, the Morgan family and the 17 Morgan Partners feared false rumors. Junius Spencer Morgan acknowledged the report of his father's heart attack. But, declared he: "Reports of his being paralyzed are entirely erroneous. He has suffered a slight upset and doctors have prescribed a rest. The worst is over. He is rapidly getting better. ... I believe he will go abroad. He usually does so at this time of year anyway...
...move, their minds sharp, their spirits obedient, their black-cassocked persons unattached to any one locality (see p. 30). Last May time came for a change in the editorship of the Jesuits' able weekly, America, run for eleven years by Rev. Wilfrid Parsons S. J. This slight, grey-haired father yielded his place to Rev. Francis Xavier Talbot S. J., lecturer and bookman. Last week Father Parsons was appointed professor of European history at Georgetown University's graduate school, turned up there at once...
...Davis is no banker. "I probably will be of little use on the Board until another such period [as the post-War depression] comes along," said the slight, nervous, greying farm expert last week, referring to what he considered the sorry lack of coordination in Federal banking and agricultural policy at that time. Born 48 years ago on an Iowa farm, Chester Davis has spent his entire adult life thinking about farmers, first as an editor of a farm paper, then as organizer of Montana's State Department of Agriculture, later as grain-marketing director of the Illinois Agricultural...
...certainly one time that TIME has made a gross misstatement, as those burning bodies were protected by members of this same body of men until the fire cooled sufficiently to allow them to be turned over to the undertaker. Perhaps TIME can answer why those bodies showed only slight charring from the waist to the shoulders, although other portions of the bodies were completely burned. We poor guessers think perhaps steel vests were protecting those bodies. Also why tear gas bombs enough to cause an army to shed tears could not drive them out of the house? There were souvenir...
...Alexander Campbell, who rejected most Baptist tenets except baptism by immersion. Last week another Campbell - Rev. George A. of St. Louis' Union Avenue Christian Church - appeared before the Northern Baptist Convention with a plea for merger on the ground that theological differences between the two churches were now slight. The Baptists applauded, indicated they would name a committee on reunion. But the 1,500 delegates adjourned this week without doing anything about the matter. Other work not done : The convention shelved a Social Action report whose economic implications scared many a conservative Baptist. Also put over for revision...