Word: suppers
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...with all the food taken from Norway, Denmark, the Low Countries and France, the average German eats what in the U. S. would not be considered good prison fare. Sample menu: for breakfast, ersatz coffee and bread; for lunch, soup, a hot dish, meat three days a week; for supper, open sandwiches. Last week, German fishermen were ordered to attend to business, to fish the streams and lakes leased by the Reich's Amateur Fishermen's Association with nets and eel baskets instead of with...
...before he left the President had several matters to consider. Foremost among them was how to finance the U. S. Government and its defense program next year. To an informal White House supper went Congressional chiefs of the revenue committees, Treasury and Budget Bureau heads: Mississippi's Pat Harrison, Georgia's Walter George, of Senate Finance; North Carolina's Robert Doughton, Tennessee's Jere Cooper, of House Ways & Means; Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, Assistant Secretary John L. Sullivan; Budget Director Harold Smith. Their problem was to raise a hoped-for $10,000,000,000 of Federal...
...have more representatives. A scattering thought women should serve only when there was a shortage of men. One-sixth were opposed to their sex holding church office. The latter group's reasons: tradition (said a Baptist: ". . . positively undignified and altogether unsuitable"), a feeling that the Lord's Supper would mean less if administered by a woman...
Concerts will be given every Sunday after supper from 7 to 8 o'clock in the Upper Common Room of the Union. The purpose of the concerts is merely to give pleasure, education being incidental. The programs consist of a brief introductory piece and a symphony or two of shorter pieces...
...mission career. In 1901 a bolt struck a toy telephone he had strung in school, narrowly missed killing a Negro student named Jacob Kenoly. Student Ross never forgot. Later Kenoly founded a mission school in Liberia and was drowned while fishing for his scholars' supper. On the day that Emory Ross got a letter telling him of Kenoly's death and asking him to take his place, he was offered a good job in a bank. For once lightning struck twice in the same place. Emory Ross went to Liberia...