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When white-haired Bishop William Newman Ainsworth of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South looked about him in Macon, Ga. last month, he was displeased. Throughout the South, Methodists were engaged in an eleventh-hour battle to defeat a project dear to Bishop Ainsworth's heart-reunion of 8,000,000 U. S. Methodists into one great church. In less than three years, Northern Methodists, Methodist Protestants and six out of seven Southern Methodist conferences had approved a plan of union drawn by a commission mission of which Bishop Ainsworth was a member (TIME, Aug. 25, 1935). Ailing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Methodists United | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

...utilizes the waif motif in rudimentary form. Breen appears first in the custody of a fat colored mammy (Louise Beavers), who says she rescued him from a burning village in the Civil War. On the chance that ha may be the scion of a rich Northern family named Ainsworth. he is shipped to New York where he encounters a jealous little cousin (Marilyn Knowlden). a kindly butler (Charles Butterworth ) and a tyrannical old lady (May Robson) who refuses to believe she is his grandmother until a rendering of a Stephen Foster chorus prompts her to go South and investigate. Compared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Christmas Waifs | 12/28/1936 | See Source »

...production staff include Freedom H. Ainsworth '38, electrician, Laird M. Ogle '37, publicity manager, Allan K. Hartman '37, property manager, Robert J. Stevenson '37, in charge of patroness lists, and Cyrus C. deCoster '37, assistant manager in charge of production...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Willard, Peachy, Deakin, and Ogle Top French Play Cast | 11/7/1936 | See Source »

Music will be under the direction of Claude Chaisson, harpsichordist, while the lighting effects will be created by Freedom H. Ainsworth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News from the Houses | 11/26/1935 | See Source »

...SPANISH MAIN : Focus or ENVY - Philip Ainsworth Means- Scribner ($3). Originally "The Spanish Main" meant the mainland of North and South America controlled by Spain. Eventually it came to be associated with "not only the central and crucial part of the Spanish, empire," but also with the vast sweep of ocean where Spain's enemies concentrated their attempts to destroy her power. Philip Ainsworth Means's imposing history of the Spanish Main consequently includes colonial problems as well as accounts of pirate raids, unfamiliar items on the conquest of Peru, discussions of Indian psychology and developments in European...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Conquerors & Colonizers | 11/18/1935 | See Source »

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