Word: 148th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Presbyterian commissioners (delegates) made ready to journey last week to Syracuse, N. Y. for the 148th annual General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A., in Philadelphia a famed and zealous Fundamentalist geared for action. Dr. John Gresham Machen professes to believe he is persecuted by a "Modernist Machine" in power in the church. In his Fundamentalist Presbyterian, Guardian last fortnight Fundamentalist Machen warned his disciples not to be deceived at the General Assembly by the way the Machine would "conceal the real issues" by limitation of debate, parliamentary bullying from the moderator's chair, celebrating...
...Hyde Park one day last week Franklin Roosevelt heard a great deal about the Constitution from a variety of people who consider his attitude toward that piece of paper highly dangerous, if not downright destructive. Picking for their political sound-off the 148th anniversary of the adoption of the Constitution by its framers at Philadelphia, important Republicans throughout the land warmed to a theme which they hope will be paramount in the 1936 presidential campaign. Though few G. O. Partisans dared to mention him by name, the speeches of one & all were aimed directly at the President...
Elsewhere in the city there was unrest and panic. Retail business was at a standstill. A few smaller firms did not open. Police were recalled from vacations and the 148th Infantry held ready. The Inverness Golf Club, scene or the recent National Open tournament, was closed by its board of directors, all help was dismissed except two greenskeepers. Ira Fulton, superintendent of Ohio Banks, called together more than 100 frightened country bankers who were hit by the trouble, tried to calm them. From neighboring States, 100 bank examiners set out to help straighten Toledo's muddle. Brokers widely discussed...