Word: program
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...America in connection with this subject has been endorsed from time to time by the highest Army Officials. As a matter of fact General Pershing in addressing the National Council of the Boy Scouts of America, some years ago, said, "I would not introduce military training into the program of the Boy Scouts of America, if I could...
With so many new charges on its hands, the Government, through its Indian Bureau (established in 1824) had to 'set about a program of social work-building schools, hospitals, etc. The discovery of oil on Indian-owned properties kept Federal agencies busy...
...Globs Theatre last week, the Lord Chamberlain, alert, notified the producers that those invidious passages in the Bible from which the play takes its name must not be incorporated in the dialog. Compliant, the producers deleted the passages, printed them on strips of paper slipped between the program leaves.* Even so, London was shocked at the play. There were purple passages (not Biblical); there was the actress, Jeanne De Casalis, in pajamas from which the producer had ordered the sleeves and lining stripped. Said Herbert Griffith in the Evening Standard: "I thought up to last night that I was unshockable...
...Speaking in English, Bishop Brent delivered a sermon which all could follow in the assembly's four-language program. He sounded "the Call to Unity . . . from God to man." He said Christianity was challenged "to get its house in order before it further infects the Eastern world with sectarianism." He said the world was "lost," that Jesus Christ alone could save...
...have no enemies. . . . We really want peace. . . . Hard work and not too much talk is the program of Turkey as she arrives at what may be called the halfway point of our present development...