Word: america
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sixth time the Rev. Dr. Frederick Hermann Knubel was elected president of the United Lutheran Church in America. He has held the office since he was first elected ten years ago. He is a New Yorker by birth and by residence, is 58 years...
Good taste, however, needed defense in the debate on the question of authorizing the Commission on Evangelism to cooperate with the United Commission on Evangelism of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America. This authorization, it seemed to some who were opposed to official contact with the Council, would have brought the Episcopalians very close to the Council. Said onetime (1922-27) Senator-from-Pennsylvania George Wharton Pepper, of the House of Deputies: "The advantages of membership in this council are, to my mind, highly exaggerated...
Diagonally across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania last fortnight went an insult to Philadelphia. From Erie, at the farthermost corner of the state, came the announcement that the United Lutheran Church of America would not convene in Philadelphia at the next biennial assemblage (1930). The reason for the snubbing of Philadelphia was the "graft scandals" of recent development. Milwaukee, free of graft scandals, was chosen instead...
...Pioneer Thompson sold his interest in the J. Walter Thompson Co.; retired. Last week Pioneer Thompson died. Today the advertising company he fostered is one of America's three biggest.* Its president is Stanley Resor. Its vice president is John Broadus Watson, author of "Homing and Related Activities of Birds." who applies to advertising his profound knowledge of behaviorism, plots shrewd campaigns for Fleischmann's Yeast, Pennsylvania R. R., Lux, Maxwell House Coffee...
...Manhattan, last week, none asked him to explain his politics. But bankers asked him of the progress of the Finance Company of Great Britain and America, Ltd., which is the few-months old international child of a luncheon-party with Tycoon Albert Henry Wiggin, Chairman of the Board of the Chase National Bank (Manhattan...