Word: toed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Honor Declined. He survived to carry on the Lord's work in western Canada, China and Japan. He was in the mountains near Tokyo when the earthquake of 1923 rocked the island, and he plunged into the work of relief. After eight years he was brought back home, and...
A shy man whose talents lay in administrative work, Ernest Pugmire was quite unlike his fiery evangelist father. As an administrator he advanced through the army's staff ranks, by 1942 had become a commissioner and boss of the army's Eastern Territory. Four years later he was...
Era of Respectability. He leads what he calls a "very humdrum life" in the five-room frame house the army furnishes him in Ramsey, N.J., and rides to his 14th Street office every morning in the Buick sedan which the army allots him, behind a Dutch chauffeur who escaped from...
Mrs. Commissioner Pugmire goes to the office with him two or three mornings a week. As is the army rule, she holds the same rank as her husband. Their five children are all married, but to the commissioner's deep disappointment, none of them followed him into active army...
Says the commissioner: "We haven't got the opposition we once had when we were kicked around . . . and our people had to fight for the right to preach in the streets. That kind of opposition bred the courage of lions."