Word: lifeblood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American policy, the Rev. Vincent G. Burns of the South Congregational Church, Pittsfield, Mass., recently resigned his pastorate. Said he: "In a day when hypocritical clergymen are mouthing old theologies, in a day when mammon-worshiping, penny-pinching hypocrites are defending the system that exploits millions and sucks the lifeblood out of the workers around the world, in a day when snobs and aristocrats hold up the iron wall of class and caste, I have dared to stand up and tell the truth concerning these soul-blasting tyrannies...
...concise manner with which you have dealt with the cotton situation in the South lately. I happen to live in the county which raises more cotton than any other county in the world as general rule and it is a vital matter to us since cotton is our lifeblood. JOSH H. GROCE Groce & Groce Attorneys at Law Waxahachie...
Comptroller General McCarl last week saved the Government $25 by ruling that a man's lifeblood is no commodity. One gob, Charles A. Smingler, recently contributed liberally from his veins to save by blood transfusion the life of Lieutenant Commander Thomas M. Cochran, ill unto death. The Navy Department issued an order to pay Smingler $25. Mr. McCarl overruled the order, maintaining that Smingler's act was a personal service, "not the sale of a commodity...