Word: groupe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus last week spoke Dr. Christian Fichthorne Reisner, 57, energetic pastor of Manhattan's Broadway Temple (Methodist Episcopal), for the construction of which he raised $5,000,000. Dr. Reisner is chairman of the Church Advertising Group of the Advertising Club of New York; author of Church Publicity, Workable Plans for Wideawake Churches, Roosevelt's Religion. He once arranged to have Contralto Louise Homer sing, and Actor Fred Stone speak, to publicize his church...
...report of 44 companies who account for 74% of total business. For 1929 they showed new paid business of $12,885,000,000-a gain of 5.4% for the year. Another gain was shown in ordinary business, which jumped 7.3% for the year, and the newly popular group insurance, while down 11.3% from record-breaking 1928, was still up 43.8% over...
...rescue be needed.* Company officials said that they would wait a fortnight, in hopes that the pack would open. To send their vessels against the pack now would break the ships and not the ice. If all else failed, they would wait until they could bring the Byrd group afoot over...
Discoveries. Wilkins discovered that Graham land was an icebound group of islands, now provisionally called the Antarctic Archipelago. He named new places after friends and backers?explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Flyer Carl Ben Eielson. Publisher William Randolph Hearst, and Geographers Finley and Bowman; also Lockheed (Aircraft), Mobiloil (Vacuum-Oil Co.), (Wright) Whirlwind...
Another program of like nature may also be used, taking for subject an outstanding national figure not represented by any considerable body of extant writings--such as Socrates, Richelieu, or Bismarck. A group like the Scipionic circle in Rome or the Medici family might be chosen. Range of acquaintance with literature and understanding of its geographic and social background would be promoted...