Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Last week in Manhattan a trial jury found Catherine McNelis guilty. Maximum penalty: 35 years in prison (five years on each of seven specific charges), fines totaling...
...Mons, Aug. 23, 1914, a heavenly host of angels appeared on the side of the British Contemptibles whose magnificent rifle fire was almost as effective as that of a machine gun, and saved them from complete annihilation. World War II has begun sprouting its crop of miracles. Last week...
There are more Baptists-10,000,000, black & white-in the U. S. than there are Protestants of any other persuasion, and they do not like the Roman Catholic Church. Last week Baptists were the quickest and loudest of protesters against President Roosevelt's Christmas Eve appointment of Myron C. Taylor as ambassador to visit the Pope. Technically Mr. Taylor is not Ambassador to the Vatican, for Congress has not created any such post. This particularly stirred the Baptists...
...trying to put something over on Congress, the Constitution, the people. In Washington, representatives of Northern, Southern and Negro Baptists drafted a letter to the White House (text not released), which they said praised Mr. Roosevelt's peace efforts but deplored the appointment of Mr. Taylor. Last week Christian Century, non-sectarian but Baptist in sympathy, bluntly editorialized...
...retail price of sugar, which between Aug. 31 and Sept. 10 rose from 5? to as much as 10? in some stores. Result: Franklin Roosevelt made an example of sugar, removed the quotas controlling production and importation, effectively reduced the sugar price to about its pre-war level. Last week, the emergency passed and the ghost of 1915-20's sugar shortage laid, Franklin Roosevelt proclaimed new sugar quotas-a trifle smaller than 1939's-for the year...