Word: flock
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...balance sheet listed assets of $1,914,000. Word got around that he was a financial wizard. His friends in the Juristic Society gave him their money to invest and sent others to him. His church affiliations were helpful too; several ministers advised members of their flock to put their worldly goods in his care. All in all, he acquired over 160 clients, among them such distinguished old Philadelphia names as Biddle. Chew, Bullitt, Gest, Truitt, Pilling. During the parlous days of New Deals I and II they were gratified at their lucrative returns from "Honest Bob" Boltz...
...only 49,028, ran behind Prohibitionist Roger Babson, who polled 58,674. Total for all minor-party candidates: 239,772, their worst showing since 1876. Scattered votes were cast but not counted for: Thomas E. Dewey, Bruce Barton, James A. Farley, Sally Rand, Mae West, Al Capone, a flock of others...
...Franciscans, strolling through roomfuls of top-flight Delacroix, Corots, Daumiers, Gauguins, Cezannes, van Goghs, Matisses, Braques, Tanguys, recognized many famed pictures (Ingres' Turkish Bath, Millet's Shepherdess Tending her Flock, Gérard's Madame Recamier, Delacroix's Greece Expiring on the Ruins of Missolonghi}. Meanwhile gallery directors all over the U. S. tumbled over themselves to negotiate with Director Heil for a loan of his big French show after San Francisco is through with...
...showing of the anti-Nazi film Pastor Hall (TIME, Aug. 12). It freely parallels Pastor Niemoller's career in op position, shows a small town Lutheran parson learning what the new Nazi gospel means, suffering in a concentration camp, escaping for a final sermon to his flock before being shot. Pastor Hall, says Dr. Leiper, "understates, not overstates" the terror...
...novels, 603 new biographies and autobiographies, 284 geography and travel books; 1,434 books of poems, criticism or other belles-lettres. There were 1,570 books on politics, economics or current affairs, 794 juveniles and 3,775 technical and text books. Most notable was the year's flock of topical books, inspired by the war. Led by Rauschning's The Voice of Destruction, they swarmed informatively into the void once filled by pamphleteers...