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...George was "called" in 1850 to become minister of a dissenting chapel. But within two years, his deacons were grumbling that he had expressed belief in a future state of probation for heathens, and that he was tainted with German theology. Macdonald finally resigned to take up the poverty-stricken lecturing, preaching and writing at which he spent the rest of his 81 years...
...second time in three months a new U.S. ambassador has died on the day he was to leave for his new post: in February, North Carolina's Oliver Max Gardner was stricken in Manhattan the day he was to sail for the Court of St. James...
...Secretariat is hypersensitive about housekeeping details at Lake Success. The remarks were stricken from the official record...
...Fight. But Bob Taft was determined to restore four provisions stricken out in the Senate Labor Committee by a coalition led by Senator Ives. As the debate got under way, Minnesota's Joe Ball offered the first: making it an unfair labor practice, for unions as well as for employers, to coerce or interfere with an employee's selection of a bargaining agent...
Promised Land of Gold Fillings. Not Rome or Naples but New York, says Levi, was the capital city of these poverty-stricken Italians, who lived on an unvarying diet of black bread, garlic, olives, peppers, tomatoes. In 1935, while 1,200 Gaglianoese lived in Gagliano, 2,000 were living in New York. America was simultaneously the Promised Land and a steel-and-concrete hell; it was the prison house of cruel labor from which came marvelous scissors, razors, blue-bladed axes and dollar bills-the rich wasteland into which Gagliano's sons and husbands often disappeared without a trace...