Word: solider
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even less solid stuff in which to sink a pen has been furnished by the New Deal's vast social and economic innovations. Republicans have jabbed hardest and oftenest at Spending & Taxation, with frequent digs at the Red Issue, Relief Corruption, Regimentation, Unemployment, Foreign Farm Imports. Democratic favorites have been Recovery and the Interests, nicely combined in pictures of plutocratic Old Deal ingrates howling calamity against a background of soaring business graphs and smoking factories...
...Solid and sober as the great Martin Luther looked is U. S. Lutheranism, the intensely individualist faith of many a farmer and small-towner, many a Scandinavian and German-American who still speaks the European tongue of his forebears. Because of the sect's diffuse organization, there is as yet no great single U. S. Lutheran Church whose head might speak with the authority of a Catholic archbishop. Biggest Lutheran body in U. S. is the United Lutheran Church, formed in 1918 of three smaller bodies and today embracing 34 state synods, 4,000 churches...
...territory. During the summer, accompanied by Toronto Pilot Pat Howard, he flew an all-metal Junkers named Santa Maria to the mouth of the Mackenzie River, presented it to Most Rev. Gabriel Breynat, O. M. I., vicar general of that vast area. In December, when the Mackenzie freezes solid, Father Schulte will again fly north, leave at least one plane equipped with wheels, floats and skis. In the north heretofore Catholic missionaries-most of them Oblates-have spent winter after winter isolated from news, medical attention, supplies. Whether or not it brings any new Eskimo or Indian converts to Mother...
...Wanted. On his way to the convention, A. B. A. President Robert Vedder Fleming of Washington's Riggs Bank had stopped off in Spokane, Wash, long enough to get himself named "Chief Black Hawk" by the Flathead Indians. This warlike title he bore gracefully. Mr. Fleming, amiable and solid as he is jolly, reminded the bankers that during the year Congress and the Administration had given A. B. A. "courteous and attentive consideration." Banks had been excluded from the provisions of the law taxing undistributed earnings. "Splendid cooperation" had been received from the Government in a survey aimed...
Fortnight ago, in an operation whose consequences were pneumonia and death last week. Surgeons Brunn & Brown removed still more of the stone wall around Mrs. Bramy's heart. At her autopsy the remainder of her pericardium was found to be solid marble, ⅛ to ½ in. thick...