Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington last week arrived a Filipino Commission headed by Manuel Roxas, Speaker of the Philippine House of Representatives, to plead before Congress for the islands' immediate independence, to take advantage of this new economic, rather than moral, sentiment for their liberation...
...year, an election year, brought widespread political stirrings among Senators and would-be Senators. In November, 35 Senate seats will be open to contest-32 routine rotations, plus special elections to fill vacancies in Kansas, Pennsylvania, Ohio. Primary elections to supply senatorial nominees will commence in April. Last week's developments...
...toying with the notion of opposing him in that contest. First, Secretary Davis had said: "The pressure upon me is so great I don't see how I am going to get out of running for the Governorship." The "pressure" shifting to a new quarter, he declared last week: "I'm not wholly wedded to this campaign for Governor. The plans of my friends are working out satisfactorily-for Governor or U. S. Senator. Once in this struggle, I'll give Pennsylvania voters plenty to think about." Another candidate who vowed he would...
Thus last week spoke popular, robust Dr. Daniel Alfred Poling in his farewell sermon at Manhattan's Marble Collegiate Reformed Church. After seven years he had resigned to devote his time to radio preaching, writing and editing-the only pastor of his 302-year-old sect in New York ever to leave his post for a reason other than ill health...
...this last interest which will particularly absorb Dr. Poling in the immediate future. On the Berengaria he and Mrs. Poling sailed last week for Europe, where he will superintend preparations for the Eighth World's Christian Endeavor Convention to be held in Berlin next August. Similar conventions have heretofore been irregular (the last was in London in 1926) ; hereafter they are intended to be biennial. To Berlin will go representatives of 34 national Christian Endeavor organizations, including from 700 to 1,000 delegates from the U. S. Theme of the convention, at which Dr. Poling will preside: "The Challenge...