Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...general, and the present war in China in particular, more passionately than Dr. Toyohiko Kagawa, Japan's No. 1 Christian. The war has stalled Kagawa's co-operative enterprises, has almost completely halted sales of the many books from which he financed his work and his modest home life. Last Christmas U. S. Christians raised $1,000 as a gift to the myopic, soft-faced little Japanese. Last week Miss Helen Faville Topping, Dr. Kagawa's devoted American amanuensis, was circulating among his friends a poem, To Tears, which he wrote to voice his feelings...
...annual meeting of the National Association of Manufacturers last month, its chairman, Colby M. Chester asked rhetorical questions: "Will the Government sit down with Business and Labor? Will it invite this co-operation?" This modest suggestion made a great impression on George Harrison, head of A. F. of L.'s Brotherhood of Railway Clerks. Since Labor was sharing the brunt of Recession in layoffs and shortened hours, Laborman Harrison took it upon himself to bring Government and Business face to face. Soon he was scurrying back & forth between the President's son James and the better Manhattan clubs...
...chickens, the county constables found a pistol and burglar's tools in his bag along with his Bible and hymn book. From then on he was never out of jail for very long at a time. In 1935, in the Cherry Hill prison of Philadelphia, he died. His modest brother Joe was with him at the time...
...starred venture in progressive education was University of Wisconsin's Experimental College, which flared and flickered between 1927 and 1932 under famed Educator Alexander Meiklejohn. A more modest effort in the same line was the importation a year ago of John Steuart Curry to be resident artist at the University. Nominally under the jurisdiction of the College of Agriculture, Artist Curry was given a five-year contract at $4,000 a year, a studio and the right to the title "Professor Curry," which he promptly painted on his garbage...
...antigambling sentiment in English parishes, the former Prince of Wales and later Edward VIII liked to try his chance at baccarat or roulette in Europe's public casinos. Last week in Monte Carlo's swank International Sporting Club the Duke of Windsor laid his stakes as a modest punter at baccarat, never cried "Banco!" Other punters, with traditional gambler superstitition. rushed to stake on chances opposite to those picked by Edward, figuring "Lucky at love, unlucky at cards." They lost heavily to the bank, from which His Royal Highness won a total for the evening of $40. Next...