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...Germans, still hoping to surrender to Britain and the U.S. but not to the Russians, still hoping to split the Allies and pose as undefeated opponents of Bolshevism, had another tricky proposal: an agreed retreat before a slow advance of the Allied forces, permitting the Nazis to carry on the fight against the Russians...
...biggest church in the Augustana Lutheran Synod, celebrated its 25th anniversary. The congregation had already outgrown its new $50,000 church. Pastor Youngdahl was holding three identical services every Sunday, each overflowing the 465 seats and jamming the church to the doors. To meet the rush, he planned to split $400,000 between a new postwar church building and a Sunday school, youth center and gymnasium...
...coincidence Attorney General Walter D. Van Riper, who had come in to clean out Hague's bailiwick, was being tried last week in Federal Court on embarrassing charges-dealing in black-market gasoline. And Hague's opposition, the "Liberation ticket," had split in mid-campaign. Four of its members were accusing a fifth of selling out to the Boss...
...presidency, but not that he wanted to tie up all conference procedure in a four-man presidium. Eden finally suggested a way out: rotate the conference presidency, make Stettinius permanent chairman of the potent steering and executive committees. Molotov seemed to agree, then insisted that only the four-way split of the conference presidency be announced that day. Everything was put over until the next day. Thoroughly incensed at Molotov, the committeemen filed...
...should men be split asunder by abstruse considerations, such as the nature of the body of Jesus Christ?" Obsessed with dreams of a happier world, Owen was nonetheless practical enough to become part owner of a cotton mill at New Lanark in Scotland. There Owen practiced his preaching, "to show that man is the best of all possible ma chineries, a being responsible to the best care." Owen's partners watched his experiments patiently, but bathtubs, school rooms, shorter hours, little mill children clustered lovingly about an owner, and "other airy projects" were too much for them. They presented...