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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...minimum wage of $200 for experienced newsmen, and listened to a barrage of speeches by outside labor leaders, including one by Francis G. Barrett, New York local president of the International Typographical Union, urging one big union for all newspaper employees-editorial, mechanical, printing, etc. But hardly a word was heard about perfecting the reporter's craft, a function in which the American Newspaper Guild, its constitution notwithstanding, has in a quarter-century betrayed no sustaining interest...
...doctrine prevails," Dr. Behnken warned the delegates, "and where men insist on compromises rather than sound agreement in doctrine, termites have been doing their destructive work . . . What Lutheranism needs is not greater and greater numbers at any cost, but a. positive and unflinching loyalty to God's word and the Lutheran confessions...
...convention backed Dr. Behnken in voting to make a 1932 statement of the Missouri Synod's doctrinal position binding on all pastors and teachers with the force of the Bible and the confessions themselves. Known as the "Brief Statement,'' it is an 8,000-word document that holds, among other things, that the Bible contains "no errors or contradictions," historical, scientific or otherwise...
...citizens ever to make the pilgrimage, and the road he took to get there was long and roundabout. Born in Lebanon, he came to the U.S. in 1902, armed with a railroad ticket to West Virginia, the names of relatives and not a word of English. But he learned fast, traveled far and lived well, until a quarrel with his Kentucky wife ended in divorce, and in 1947 he decided to go back to the Middle East. He bought a small house in Damascus, married again and settled down to a simple life on skimpy savings and a U.S. Army...
...everybody talks about the weather, and everybody tries to do something different about it. Television weather shows range from Milwaukee's Bill Carlsen squirting up a shaving-cream snowstorm to Manhattan's arch, smock-coated Tex Antoine drooping a cartoon mustache to pass the same word about rain. There have been politicians (Maryland's Senator John Marshall Butler once sponsored a nightly weather roundup as a campaign gimmick), puppets, and above all, dolls. As one of the largest sponsors of TV weather programs (36 on local stations in the East), the Atlantic Refining Co. has tried...