Word: sundays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sunday, Senator Alben Barkley with his keynote speech and Senator Joseph T. Robinson with his speech as permanent chairman of the Democratic convention, came to lay their themes on the lap of their chief for editing and correction...
...years the ablest associate of the late Evangelist William Ashley ("Billy") Sunday was Homer Alvan Rodeheaver, who played an old slide trombone which he bought for $4.50 while at Ohio Wesleyan University, led audiences in such rousing hymns as Brighten the Corner Where You Are! The decline of old-style evangelism and the death of Billy Sunday left Homer Rodeheaver less newsworthy but no less busy. Unctuous, large of frame, full of vigor at 55, he is much in demand as a speaker at gatherings of such evangelical bodies as Christian Endeavor. He runs a publishing house with offices...
...chairman of his Church's commission on Church attendance, a pioneer in investigating the simple matter of how many pews are filled on Sunday, Roger Babson has reached the conclusion that...
...show. Singlehanded in 1931 he carried through the negotiations by which the failing Brothers Pulitzer's Worlds were merged for $3,000,000 (plus $2,000,000 future profits) with the flashy Scripps-Howard Telegram, bought four years before. It was Publisher Howard who junked the morning and Sunday Worlds, announced to a skeptical city that the independent, crusading, liberal traditions of Joseph Pulitzer's great paper had suffered not death but "rebirth." Not until 1933, when the World-Telegram won a Pulitzer distinguished service award for a variety of effective campaigns, did New York City take Publisher...
...villa near Moscow. Turned out of his grandfather's house at 9, he became a ragpicker, a scullery boy, a sailor, bitterly described Old Russia in short stories, novels (The Outcasts, Comrades, Mother), his celebrated play The Lower Depths. Imprisoned and exiled by the Tsar on Bloody Sunday (Jan. 22, 1905), he returned in 1914, served as a private in the War. He supported the moderate Kerensky regime, thunderously opposed the Bolsheviki, reluctantly accepted a Government post from Nikolai Lenin which he abandoned shortly to nurse his failing health in Capri. Induced to return in 1928, he was feted...