Word: stems
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...segregate themselves at worship. Led by a prosperous teamster named Richard Allen and his friend Absalom Jones, the Negroes indignantly left the congregation, forthwith founded a benevolent organization called the Free African Society. From this group, first which U. S. Negroes formed to aid themselves socially and economically, stem all U. S. Methodist and Episcopal Negro churches. The majority of the Free Africans voted in 1791 to build an Episcopal church, and they soon affiliated it with the white, national church body. But Teamster Allen felt that Methodism was better for Negroes. He bought a blacksmith shop, began holding services...
Today there are 90 Childs restaurants in 23 U. S. cities and Toronto, Montreal and Winnipeg, Canada. All stem from a lunchroom started in 1889 on Manhattan's Cortlandt Street by Brothers Samuel and William Childs with $1,600 capital. Farm boys from Bernardsville. N. J., the Childs Boys, irked by eating in dirty hash-houses, decided to offer the public something cheap and clean. While public clamor for sanitary improvement was building up to the Pure Food & Drugs Act in 1906, Childs restaurants mushroomed, their slogan "The Nation's Host from Coast to Coast," their symbol...
...into the air, strike the screen, fall into the tank. Turkeys are known to be great eaters of grasshoppers but the Department of Agriculture declared last week that even if all the turkeys in the U. S. were concentrated in North and South Dakota they could do little to stem the tide there...
...forecast and occasionally, as in England from Sheridan to Pinero, the Theatre has been prostrate for long periods. While realistic observers at the Astor did not consider the U. S. Theatre's case hopeless, nevertheless the fact that as many as 1,000 people, most of whose livelihoods stem from the stage, should formally assemble to consider its condition, indicated a state of affairs grave indeed...
...city are some of the richest coal and iron mines in Spain. If Italy and Germany could get access to these for their rearmament program, their entire investment in the Spanish war might be justified and the galling defeat at Brihuega might be forgotten. If the Basques could stem the drive against their capital it would be a victory over Fascism that should impress the whole world...