Word: sparked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just a month ago the dying League of Nations sank to a single spark of life. Secretary General Joseph Avenol asked for the resignation of its last 89 employes, remained its only functionary. Last week the final spark went out. M. Avenol sadly informed the League's member States that the "realities" of the present time made his office no longer necessary, himself resigned...
...Spark plug of the pilot training program is quiet-mannered, businesslike Assistant Secretary of Commerce Robert H. Hinckley, who this March, as tsar of U. S. commercial aviation, celebrated its first year with no airline fatalities, a record which helped him sell jittery Congressmen on a bigger civilian training program for 1940-41. Bob Hinckley took his first airplane ride with pioneer German aviatrix Melli Beese when he was touring Europe as a Mormon missionary. Expelled from Germany because his gospel was believed to be disturbing the peace, he returned to the U. S. to found the Utah-Pacific Airlines...
...charge of the planning were Industrialists William S. Knudsen, Edward Stettinius Jr., some 200 high-powered colleagues on the President's National Defense Advisory Commission. Getting these talented bigwigs down to coordinated work was in itself a big, time-taking job. Up to last fortnight, most commission spark plugs always had time for an easy hour's chat with visitors; many paced uneasily from office to office, fretting for something to do. But last week the doldrums were over. The commission was moving rapidly out of the planning stage into action...
...necessary guarantee of safe conduct from belligerents. Before Congress was an Administration proposal to exempt Red Cross vessels from the Neutrality Act; otherwise the McKeesport might have to be ordered back. Cried West Virginia's lame-duck Senator Rush Holt: "This resolution of authority might be the spark. ..." Nevertheless, the resolution passed...
Dean De Wolfe, who helped spark the Episcopalians' Forward Movement, may well make the cathedral's work measure up to the grandeur of its fabric. In twelve years he swelled the congregation of small St. Andrew's Church, Kansas City, from 90 to 1,100, housed in a fine new, debt-free Gothic church. His Low-Church parish in Houston feared he might be too High-Church when he went there in 1934. But friendly, straightforward Dr. De Wolfe soon had them genuflecting and liking it. Says he: "I'm not interested in high...