Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Double Insurance. The office is a pleasant, airy room with polished brass desk ornaments, a gilded telephone, and a view of green Arkansas forests across the big river. It is not only a political nerve center but headquarters for one of the South's largest insurance and mortgage loan businesses. In 22 years, E. H. Crump & Co. has experienced a phenomenal growth; many a Memphis business man understandably believes that insurance with Crump has a double value. Crump's 54 years in Memphis have yielded him not only power, but wealth-cotton land in Mississippi, a fine brick...
...shouldn't," wrote Britain's crack war correspondent Alexander Graeme Clifford, "pay too much attention to Mr. Ingersoll.... But one must pay attention to what he stands for-an American point of view. History is in the oven now and soon it will be ready to serve...
...rebellion may have flashed temptingly through their lordships' minds. But too well they knew the retribution in store for them if they misbehaved; some particularly brash commoners had even murmured darkly of dissolving the upper chamber entirely. Declared Lord Swinton: "Lord Merthyr's is not a wise view to express in this century." He concluded by sternly advising Lord Merthyr to "revise his estimate of the comparative value of valor and discretion...
...Protestantism there is a great movement back to orthodoxy and away from humanism; and in some of the Protestant churches there is a marked movement toward a higher view of the church and the sacraments...
...Singing," says Artist Georgia O'Keeffe, "has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. Since I cannot sing, I paint." Last week 57 examples of her kind of song went on view in Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. Each one had the contrived spontaneity of music, and in each the melody of line and color meant more than the bones, blossoms, skyscrapers, barns, crosses and canyon walls she used for lyrics...