Word: woos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inception and, while church attendance is not compulsory, most officers use every legitimate means to guide the boys to the religious service. This they do for they know that the weekly visit of the "padre"' very decidedly helps the camp morale. We who wear the cross try to "woo" the boys into our congregation by giving them, not baloney or piffle, but something practical, helpful and inspiring?something which they can use in their everyday life. I have received many letters from boys who have finished their "tour" with the C. C. C. telling me how much they miss...
When Phelps Dodge Corp. set out with cash in its pockets to woo and master rich, independent United Verde Copper Co. of Arizona (TIME, Feb. 18), most people thought it was the only suitor. Last week it was learned that there was another. American Smelting & Refining, which Simon Guggenheim took over from his brother Daniel in 1919 and built into one of the world's biggest non-ferrous metal smelters & refiners, had bought a big block of stock in United Verde earlier than Phelps Dodge. Last week in Manhattan the two suitors rushed to a meeting of United Verde...
...Lawn Tennis Association, William O'Brien is Public Enemy No. 1. For the past four years U.S.L.T.A. has watched Mr. O'Brien woo away from amateurism the cream of the nation's tennis crop. Last year his prize catch was Ellsworth Vines. With Vines, William Tilden, Bruce Barnes and Vincent Richards, Promoter O'Brien played 75 towns and cities, taught the public to like professional tennis exhibitions, grossed $243,000 from 352,412 customers. But no theatrical producer puts on the same thing year after year. Casting about for a new act to liven...
...story is that of the officer who is sent to woo the rich widow and thereby prevent her taking her money from the somewhat mythical kingdom. Yes, he does bring her back alive, although it is quite a trial...
...flayed the liquor traffic and indecent cinema; cabled a protest to Adolf Hitler over the coercion of the German churches; came out for a fixed date for Easter and for more unity among the 18 North American Lutheran bodies. Especially would the United Lutheran Church (1,500,000 members) woo the American Lutheran Church (525,000 members). But the latter's President Carl Christian Hein told the Savannah convention of two obstacles to a merger. The American Lutherans have always forbidden their members to join lodges, particularly Masonic ones; and they do not care for the indiscriminate fellowship...