Word: ways
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enormous Mormon Temple in Salt Lake City, finance missions and schools, pay 60% toward construction of local chapels and tabernacles. And tithes are intended to pay for part of the Mormon Church Security Program, widely publicized after its establishment two years ago as a rugged, pioneering, common-sense way to get self-respecting Mormons off Federal relief...
...Heber Jeddy Grant - was a bit dismayed at how the Security Program had been misrepresented. Facts were that only Mormon tithepayers, and hence few indigents participate in the Program. No WPA worker could give up his job to get church aid. Although the church did get 700 projects under way - mining, agricultural, chapel-building, etc. - the Program was not an emergency relief venture. Yet the Program could be made to sound like an anti-New Dealer's sweetest dream, and was, by such journals as the American Banker, the Saturday Evening Post and Cosmopolitan-not without aid from...
...Summit, N. J., training camp, Fisticuffer Galento drove sweatily back to his bar, served a few beers, drank a few himself and was soon running a 104° temperature between chills. At Orange Memorial Hospital, where his case was diagnosed as lobar pneumonia, he tried to fight his way out of the oxygen tent, relaxed at the request of his manager and declared: "I'll lick it like I licked those other bums...
While Hero Hartnett was the centre of a boisterous ring-around-a-rosy celebration at Wrigley Field just before his managerial debut in a double-header with the Dodgers (which they split), onetime Hero Charlie Grimm was on his way back to his Missouri farm. Mindful of his two pennants (1932 and 1935) and the enviable record of never finishing lower than third in the six years he managed the Cubs, Charlie Grimm smiled ruefully. "That's baseball." said...
Japan, no less than Chiang, early realized that China's leaders were China's intellectuals; and that the only way to invade China culturally as well as physically was to cripple, or at least regulate, Chinese colleges. Year ago this week, squads of Japanese planes lazily droned across Tientsin, dropping their load on Nankai University. That was the beginning of a concerted campaign...