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...widest breach on the heretofore solid front of Almazanismo was opened by none other than President-elect Manuel Avila Camacho. Though he was elected principally through the efforts of Cárdenas' Party of the Mexican Revolution, General Camacho's principles are far to the right of the Party's. Having sensed a swing to the right in Mexican politics, having observed the temper of some of the Rightists, Avila Camacho last week thought the time ripe to enunciate his principles. He announced that he was a good Catholic (the Church has been disestablished since 1859), that...
...North America (representing 129 Protestant bodies with 30,000,000 adherents). Purpose of the meetings: to boost foreign missions. First step: to call foreign missions "Christian Foreign Service." The hour-and-a-half broadcast, carried on three networks and numerous short-wave stations, gave Christian Foreign Service the widest hearing it had ever had. Next: a campaign for funds...
...radio preaching: "The Marconi radio . . . is frequently and advantageously put to use in order to insure the widest possible promulgation of all that concerns the church. . . . But let those who fulfill this ministry be careful to adhere to the directives of the teaching church, even when they explain and promote what pertains to the social problem; forgetful of personal gain, despising popularity, impartial, let them speak 'as from...
...moved by the abject poverty of the inhabitants that he decided to devote his life to the betterment of their lot. Today hospitals and schools, missions and orphanages stand as tribute to the energy of one man, this doctor, whose name has become synonymous with Labrador. In the widest possible sense he has educated the people not to suffer on the barest edge of the land but to develop the resources--timber and minerals--which lie inland...
...beef boats (and occasionally by Beatty's fast battle cruisers) until the Hampshire (with Lord Kitchener aboard) was sunk by a German mine outside it. Then it was closed by mines, as it doubtless is again this time. Hoxa Sound on the south is the deepest and widest approach. Here are a "boom" and submarine net barrier* as well as hundreds of mines, doubtless of the controlled type operable by electric switch ashore. Infrared "electric eye" detectors for surface craft are also believed installed at Hoy and Hoxa. To pick his way through such barriers, Prien would have needed...