Word: superintendance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Principal William Aberhart and his Prophetic Bible Institute, spurred them on to victory. Major Douglas last week was still technically under contract to the Government of Alberta and Messiah Aberhart has said, "Though we do not see eye to eye in all respects, Major Douglas will be invited to superintend in Alberta the inauguration and ad ministration of Social Credit with its three basic principles...
...Georgia's rutty red roads one August night 19 years ago, a man named B. B. ("Bunce") Napier drove an automobile in the back of which crouched a State prisoner about to be lynched. The prisoner was Leo Frank, young Brooklyn Jew who had gone to Atlanta to superintend a pencil factory. When 14-year-old Mary Phagan was found murdered in the plant, Frank, amid a popular uproar against Jews in general, was arrested, tried, convicted, sentenced to death. Governor John Marshall Slaton imperiled his own life by commuting Frank's sentence to life imprisonment. One attempt...
...performers was easy to understand. Comedian Dressier is a White House intimate of the Roosevelt family. Comedian Cantor visited Warm Springs last fortnight as representative of Hollywood's newly-formed Actors' Guild. More startling was the appointment of prim little Dr. Lowell. His job will be to superintend the efforts of the Hays organization to regulate the industry's moral flavor from within...
Besides Depression "Clem"' Hobson has had to contend with failing eyesight. One eye went blind years ago. Last autumn his good eye dimmed. Never giving up, "Clem" Hobson went to Lausanne, had his eye operated on, hurried back to Paris before the wound was healed, to superintend the reopening of the Ambassadeurs for the present summer season. With him went a beefy British friend. After the dress rehearsal the friend rumbled up, roaring enthusiasm...
...each of the several Houses, the library must, in the final analysis, be under the control of the masters. As at present, they must have power to name the librarians and assistants, to exercise authority through their library committees over the apportionment of books to various departments, to superintend, generally, the regulations which conduct the libraries' use. These wide powers are necessary if there is to be even the slightest pretense of House autonomy...