Word: stewardship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last year the 20 major Protestant denominations of the U. S. collected $15,000,000 more than the year before. So last week reported the United Stewardship Council, representing 23 U. S. and Canadian churches. The council's report bore out the familiar U. S. dogma that country folk are more religious than city people; churches with rural constituents showed the greatest increase in giving. Highest per cent gains were in the Church of the Brethren, 16%, and the Church of the Nazarene, 13%. The Southern Baptists gave $2,300.120 more than the year before, an 8% increase. Next...
...suggest to you that you prepare yourself for a newer and finer stewardship-the industrial rebirth of the nation. You ask when? I don't know. But the task is mighty and the penalty for failure severe, so let us try to be patient...
...Essen and in this Krupp stronghold addressed a meeting of 400 directors of German savings banks. Some of them came out convinced they had heard the brusque, autocratic Reichsbanker squawk a guttural swan song. Others thought Dr. Schacht had delivered publicly just such an accounting of his stewardship as he might have made in private to convince the Führer that German economy must continue under Horace Greeley Hjalmar Schacht if the Fatherland is to avoid perilous overspending for rearmament, catastrophic inflation...
...three Regents whose names were extracted from the envelope one was dead and the Barlman did not share the liking of the late King Fuad for the other two, promptly voted to appoint three entirely different Regents. These grave dignitaries have performed their stewardship well. Last week in the Barlman the powers they have exercised were turned over to Farouk I in a simple ceremony of oath-taking like that by which a President is sworn in at Washington. Swore His Majesty upon the sacred Koran last week, with alert U. S. Minister to Egypt Bert Fish listening...
...secretaries exuding confidence and saying, "Just wait and see." After some hours of Congress wrangling, Socialist Blum rose in the late afternoon, introduced himself with a sentence which set every cartoonist in France to scratching: "I shall not speak as God or as Caesar, but as for my stewardship as Premier for 13 months, I do not think that the record...