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...help "make the Christian Gospel more effective in society," U.S. Congregationalists in 1934 created a Council for Social Action. Council members, drawn from the ranks of church liberals, thereupon set out to sell fellow Congregationalists and all other Americans on some forward-looking ideas. During the '30s, the council gave its blessing to the consumer cooperative movement, demanded a national referendum before a declaration of war, attacked student military training and conducted critical studies of the private-enterprise system...
...evidence night & day for two weeks. Then he went to New Haven, in his best black suit. The dean, aged 28, received him in tennis ducks. They instantly impressed each other as great men. When Hutchins became president of the University of Chicago, he took Adler along. Thereupon, the academic battle of the century began...
...told trade union leaders after his re-election last November. A month later, without inviting or even informing opposition parties, his government in the remote Chaco territory along the Paraguayan border, 450 miles northwest of Buenos Aires, staged a constituent assembly and swiftly enacted a constitution. Thereupon, Chaco territory became Argentina's 18th province -Presidente Perón Province...
Helen Bray was an attendant at California's Pacific Colony State Hospital for retarded children for five years before she decided to take the exam for psychiatric technician. When she did, she placed first. Thereupon, Technician Bray got charge of a sprawling cottage housing 100 youngsters aged one to three...
...resolute anti-Jaccoponi dockers, all of them fast men with a fist or a bale-hook. Under protection of Italian-not American-soldiers, they unloaded two ships. Restless rank & filers in the Red union, with nothing to do but 'watch, began nudging their leaders. Thereupon Jaccoponi, to save his face, put on his businessman's hat, made a deal with Vissering: Jaccoponi would set up a subsidiary to his monopoly to handle the U.S. Army shipping, but would let Vissering control all hiring and operations...