Word: sunday
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doubtless calculated, Beaverbrook, bristling like a new broom, also showed up at the office on Sunday morning, demanded to know who was on the job. Oliver-on-the-spot had a long talk with the Beaver, instantly and deeply impressed the new boss. Thereafter, Beaverbrook rarely turned a wheel without consulting Franks...
...Rhode Islanders who gathered in Providence's Roger Williams Park last week for an old-fashioned "Sunday in the Park" had a birthday to celebrate. In ten years, the Blue Cross (hospital insurance) plan had covered 532,000 subscribers-70% of all Rhode Islanders and 75% of all eligibles. In no other state had the plan been so successful. But something was missing: Rhode Island Blue Cross still could not cover doctors' fees...
When the morning service was over the women, in their Sunday-best print dresses, bustled off to the new basement to fix a country-style dinner. Meanwhile, Brother Robinson heard the quarterly progress reports on the three churches-Fletcher Chapel, Ebenezer Church and Pimento Church that make up 35-year-old Rev. Eldon O. Gourley's Pimento circuit...
...Sunday school attendance, said Brother Gourley, had jumped 20% and the turnout for services was better, too. "We're running 35 to 45 worshipers at Fletcher on Sunday, 65 at Ebenezer and 50 at Pimento . » The three district churches had raised more than $2,000 for such improvements as the Ebenezer's new electric organ, an oil furnace and wallpaper for the parsonage...
Within its chaste white marble walls, Cokesbury carries 300 different kinds of Bibles plus multidenominational religious supplies ranging from Sunday-school buttons to Torahs for synagogues. But this is a sideline to a fervently commercial trade that sells 70,000 secular titles to some of the country's most avid book buyers. Dallas spends about $6 per capita on books annually (the U.S. average...