Word: soft
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Probably four boards will remain: Education, Home Missions, Foreign Missions, Christian Work for Women. The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society will have to join with one of the last two. Last fortnight its president of the past 17 years, soft-spoken Mrs. Evelyn Riley Nicholson of Mount Vernon, Iowa, voiced a plea not only for the members of her society but for Methodist women in general : "We implore that you not relegate our activities to a subsidiary position to men's work in such a way as to limit us." While Methodist committees last week explored ways & means...
...years ago, after an absence of 18 years, she returned to the soft-coal country to gather material for a new novel. This time she saw gutted farms, depleted mines, nothing to evoke the dream of Carnegie and Frick except the taste of gritty coal dust...
Born 52, years ago in the soft-coal country which gives the background to her novel, Author Turnbull saw some of the first coal mines opened in that section. Like many another child of Scotch-Irish farmers in the beautiful rolling hills of Westmoreland County, thrilled by the romance of Carnegie and Frick, she saw the coke ovens like a pillar of fire by night, the mine tippets a new wonder...
...county chairman of the W. C. T. U. in the 1920s she had led a series of violent raids until she was sued for smashing up a soft-drink parlor. She was also imprisoned for a year for trying to collect $10,000 on a forged note from the estate of an eccentric Le Mars lawyer named T. M. Zink. This year Mrs. Knox knocked out the teeth of a relief official at a meeting where she was protesting the laying off of Sumner Knox. When neighbors began to note the absence of Mr. Knox and Mrs. Trow, Le Mars...
Louis, Evansville and the soft-coal fields around Cairo, Chicago & Eastern Illinois Ry. is more important than its size would indicate, for it is a connecting link in the great Van Sweringen system. To get control of C. & E. I. after ICC had disapproved linking it with the Chesapeake & Ohio, the Vans pulled off a slick deal in which Paine, Webber & Co. acted as dummy purchasers. A subsequent circumventing of legal requirements, whereby the Vans got RFC unwittingly to pay off an inter-company loan, drew an ICC examiner's admission that "we were made monkeys of. . . ." Last week...