Word: soul
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your article captioned "Soul's Helmsman," p. 22, issue of August 13, when you mention the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the late Joseph Pulitzer, founder, and his son Joseph, and review briefly its growth to its present prestige, how could you leave out the name of the man who stood shoulder to shoulder with Joseph Sr. and Joseph Jr. for 50 years in the building of this great newspaper...
...Senate committee investigating U. S. occupation of Haiti and the Dominican Republic, sent him to those countries to look into condi tions. Thereafter Dr. Gruening became a bitter critic of U. S. policy in Latin America, a champion of all the little nations on whose soil and soul the U. S. had stepped. In 1924 he publicized the presidential candidacy of the venerable Robert La Follette Sr., helped to throw a "Red Scare" into the U. S. electorate. For two years thereafter he retired to Mexico to write a book (Mexico and Its Heritage], but in 1927 he was back...
Five hundred poets and prose writers in 80 Soviet languages and dialects were welcomed to Moscow last week by unromantic Josef Stalin as "engineers of the human soul." Soon walrus-mustached Maxim Gorky opened the First All-Union Congress of Soviet Writers with a speech recommending study of the Russian classics. The Soviet Press, however, firmly declared with Dictator Stalin that the purpose of the Congress is "to apply scientific methods to the creation of literature...
...suit the composite character of a large congregation. In 15 Sunday morning prayers he observes that Dr. Fosdick expresses "all the needs and desires he may be expected to express during the succeeding five years . . . for economic deliverance, devotion to the highest, glad and fresh faith, fruitfulness of the soul, integration of our lives, renewed aspirations, attunement to God, beauty, high thoughts, basic virtues, larger and higher visions, spiritual welfare and wholesomeness of life...
...other paper in the land was carrying it as fact. These qualities and the loyalty that they inspire in the Post-Dispatch's staff caused Editor Ross once to write a sentence which he could well have repeated last week: "To say that the Post-Dispatch . . . had a soul is to risk a cynical retort; but how can one better convey the idea...