Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Department's Division of Territories and Island Possessions: to remind Puerto Rico that, although U. S. colonies perpetually grumble, the colonial arrangement usually works much more to their profit than to the profit of the U. S. Said Dr. Gruening last week: "Nothing could be further from the spirit and purpose of this Administration than to keep a people, not consulted originally about its annexation, under our flag if they do not desire to be there. ... If, on the other hand, they decide to remain American citizens under the American flag it will settle the question which has agitated...
...Michelson's Republican competitor, GOPressagent Theodore Huntley, Columnists Drew Pearson & Robert Allen last week told an astonishing tale which Washington accepted is true in spirit, if not in fact. Greeting at his office Malcolm W. (''Bing!") Bingay, who left the Detroit news five years ago to edit he Detroit Free Press, Mr. Huntley said: "How do you do, Mr. Bingay-how are you and how's the Detroit News?" Editor Bingay's Free Press has for several years conducted a running Ight with Radiorator Charles Edward Coughlin. but Pressagent Huntley's next conversational ambit...
Last autumn Dr. Greist wrote to his superiors on the Board of National Missions of the Presbyterian Church: "Now I am beginning to feel that the Lord is ready to excuse me from further service on this coast. Prayer and earnest seeking after the mind of the Spirit causes me to express myself thus. I have nothing to regret save my limited ability to serve Him. Many souls have been brought to the Lord Jesus Christ and I have preached the word with all faithfulness. And yet I shall leave my heart within this far North for whose people...
...West," were to hear Albert Spalding fiddle, watch Martha Graham dance, hear Soprano Eva Gauthier sing. There was also art to be seen: indigenous paintings of the Southwest and a loan collection of Cezanne, Renoir, Matisse, Picasso, Modigliani, Braque, Leger. All this manifestation of the life of the spirit was to open a brand new cultural fane in the Rockies: Colorado Springs' $1,000,000 Fine Arts Center...
...universities that forms one of the strongest bulwarks of free government. Despite the temporary encroachment of petty politicians, bent on perverting the true function of education for purposes of propaganda and personal aggrandisement, democratic government is unlikely to land on the rocks for good as long as the spirit of learning prevails. It is definitely encouraging, then, that Congress has officially recognized the importance of higher education to the welfare of the general body politic...