Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year-old grandfather carried him to a window, peered through his spectacles at the babe and pronounced: "This is the minister we have been praying for.'' Ordained at 23, Covert asked a Minnesota missions superintendent for "the hardest field in the State," was assigned to an industrial suburb of St. Paul. He soon became the youngest synod moderator ever elected in Minnesota. Today Dr. Covert is called a "pastor to pastors" because he has sympathetically heard the woes of thousands of his fellows. Tall and stocky, he dresses well, has twinkling eyes and a stubborn shock of white...
...Britten charged that it was written by "the scarlet fever boys in the little red house in Georgetown"-a dig at Thomas Corcoran and Benjamin Victor Cohen, New Deal legalites who keep bachelor hall at $50 each per month in an old brick house in Washington's suburb. The whole country, said this hard-bitten Congressman, was whispering about these "radicals." Shouted Ohio's Truax: "They're not radical enough!" Stolid Representative Mapes of the House Interstate & Foreign Commerce Committee, which reported the bill, doggedly claimed that it was "the work of the committee...
...Chippewa, and the Federals got on his trail after he had left. In a swamp nearby, the Federals went gunning for another gangster whom they were "sure" they had surrounded. At a bank hold-up in Chicago, another member of the gang, Homer van Meter, was "identified." In another suburb three policemen overtook a car, were promptly covered by machine guns and disarmed by men who they were "positive" were members of the gang. "It was Dillinger, all right." said one. But where Desperado Dillinger was or how he would strike next or even whether he yet lived...
...Finnish High Court last week passed sentence upon the spy ring of 28 men and women it had been trying behind locked doors for nine weeks (TIME, April 9). To a 27-year-old graduate of the University of Michigan and onetime school teacher in a Detroit suburb, Arvid Werner Jacobsen, the judges gave a sentence of five years at hard labor. In Michigan his wife Sally said: "Arvid took a university fellowship in Finland and then found out he was expected to give dangerous information." The Finnish police charged that Arvid had been the ring's paymaster...
...Catholic priests quarrel with Nazidom was set forth last week in the Berlin suburb of Hcnnigsdorf. There gathered 1,800 Catholic children, aged 10 to 16, on church property for their first spring festival. The field was bright with their church club banners, blazoned with pictures of the Blessed Virgin and other saints. Suddenly from nowhere marched a company of Hitler Jugend. The company marched clean through the crowd of children, seized a banner, about-faced and marched back again. At this show of big-boy force, the priests herded their children back toward the railway station. At the station...