Word: subjects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Became King." Last week's melancholy debate was a sort of rehearsal for a big African conference to be held in London this September. Already, the vanguard of the African delegates had arrived. He was the Honorable Oba Aderemi, the Oni of Ife, whose 3,200,000 Yoruban subjects in Nigeria call him "The Fountain of Honor." The Oni sprayed good will around London, gave a fatherly pat to his youngest subject in England (see cut), and reminded Britons that for twelve years he was a railway clerk, signalman and traffic instructor. "I had to give it up when...
Henry Louis Mencken, the veteran volcano from Baltimore, had a wonderful time at the Wallace convention (see PRESS), and nearly became the subject of a resolution. Maryland Wallaceites wanted the convention to censure him for his reporting in the Baltimore Sun ("Whereas he has resorted to un-American slander against the people of this convention . . ."). But the chair refused the motion on the ground that it would start a flood of others. Other Menckenisms filed to the Sun (on Henry Wallace): "If ... he suddenly sprouts wings and begins flapping about the hall, no one will be surprised"; (on Vice Presidential...
...most people, is still merely a city in The Netherlands. But more & more Christians are now sensing that the world assembly of churches which begins there on Aug. 22 may make Amsterdam a landmark in contemporary Christian history. This week, in the first of four transatlantic broadcasts on the subject, the Most Rev. Geoffrey Francis Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, spoke to U.S. citizens on the meaning of the conference. Said...
...week starting Friday, July 30. Times are E.D.T., subject to change...
...week starting Friday, July 23. Times are E.D.T., subject to change...