Word: granting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...deficit of ?2,573,000. As for the "Divide and Rule" idea it seems that no one remembers that division came first and the ruling afterwards. Would TIME prefer civil war? We once fought to make the South remain a part of the U.S.A. What independence did we grant to those dissenters? Is Ireland from its position not more vital to England? England buys 80% of Ireland's exports and furnishes 60% of her imports. It looks to me as if the Northern Irish were working while the Southern Irish were talking politics, and nursing imaginary grievances. They haven...
...winter and spring Editor Charles Clayton Morrison of the Christian Century has fought like General Grant on one line: against President Roosevelt's appointment of Myron C. Taylor as his special ambassador to the Pope. Last week Dr. Morrison had fresh ammunition-a letter from Mr. Roosevelt to Dr. George. A. Buttrick, president of the Federal Council of Churches, Dr. Buttrick, quoting a report from Rome, had tried to pin the President down as to whether Mr. Taylor had a permanent status, warned him of "a growing [Protestant] disillusionment which augurs ill for interfaith comity." Last week the Federal...
...revolution prophesied has not taken place, but it is nevertheless on the way. Through better education for Negroes who show talent, much work has been done to develop Negro music to fill its rightful place as an indigenous art in this country. William Dawson and William Grant Still, whose symphonic works have been sponsored (perhaps unfortunately) by the pride of Philadelphia. Leopold Stokowski, are among the most important names associated with this movement...
John J. Bausch, a German immigrant who originally peddled spectacles in Rochester, and his partner Henry Lomb, who during the Civil War served as a captain in the Army under Grant, got the right to use Zeiss patents nearly 50 years ago. They not only licensed Zeiss patents but made an arrangement for exchanging skilled men, techniques and manufacturing secrets. Their military products, only about 10% of their output, have become so vital to national defense that since 1912 the U. S. Navy has kept experts stationed continuously in the B. & L. plant as observers...
...Club has wanted to produce its play for a long time, and this seems to be the best opportunity." Sheppard, the president, stated. Norris Houghton was asked to stage the play, but he was occupied with a study of the theatre financed by a Rockefeller grant...