Word: soule
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the start, serious, levelheaded Paxton was a sound investment. The son of two lieutenant colonels in the Salvation Army, he learned early to blow a variety of horns in soul-saving bands. He spent ten years as a name-band arranger. During the past year, he has worked some 17 hours a day rehearsing, scurrying after contracts, exploring songs. He is not wide-eyed about success: "It's harder to stay there than to get there...
...Iloilo begged Confesor to return, to bring "peace and tranquillity to our people." Confesor's reply has become a classic of resistance literature: "This war has placed us in the crucible to assay the metal in our being. . . . You underrate the nobility and grandeur of the character and soul of the Filipino. . . . I will not surrender as long as I stand on my feet." Firmly on his feet last week, Confesor was ready to start clearing up battered Manila, preparing to rebuild the Philippines. His first principle for rebuilding: wide streets, no slums
...edits the standard Presbyterian Hymnal, has trained some 300 U.S. church music directors. Now, as chairman of the American Guild of Organists' service committee, he spends his spare time telling organists how to needle the clergy into planning services with good music instead of merely "decorating" them with "soul-saving hymns." Dr. Dickinson pours most of his philosophy into one anecdote: "Once I heard a preacher sermonize on Launch into the Deep. Then the choir stood up and sang Pull for the Shore. You see, it's better to plan your service...
...screen how the old man got that way, you would never suspect that the Colonel and his kind had anything to do with bringing on the Second World War. Even insofar as Blimp is shown to be old-fashioned and shortsighted, this is simply because he is the soul of gentlemanly honor...
...Dewey's representative, enabled Cordell Hull to take Dumbarton Oaks out of politics, made his principal pre-San Francisco speech in Manhattan. He demanded that the San Francisco Conference make two essential improvements on the Dumbarton Oaks plan-which he called a plan without a soul. "My first proposal," said he, "is that the organization should be infused with an ethical spirit, the spirit of justice. . . . The charter should require the new organization, as its first order of business, to undertake the difficult but essential task of developing conceptions of justice by which it will be guided. Only thus...