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...from eating their fellow-citizen's garbage. Englewood's First M. E. Church, not the swankest in town but the largest and richest of the denomination in Bergen County, got its white-thatched black-browed Dr. Ball in 1931 by the usual Methodist method: accepting the man assigned by the local conference. With increasing apprehension Dr. Ball's congregation listened to Sunday sermons out of a liberal's bag of tricks-against "economic greed," against armament appropriations, against restrictions of civil liberties, in favor of all manner of social legislation. Preacher Ball also went outside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Ball Out | 3/16/1936 | See Source »

Some who make a habit of criticizing the "most influential man in America" assign to Frankfurter the authorship of Senator Robinson's reply to Al Smith's Liberty League speech--in spite of the fact that it is quite obvious to close observers that the ghost was Charles Michelson, ace New Deal publicity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Strictly Speaking | 2/10/1936 | See Source »

Photographic work in Fogg Museum has been turned over to the Film Foundation as a part of the plan to assign all University photography to this central laboratory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Film Foundation Enlarges Field to Fogg Photography | 11/20/1935 | See Source »

...advisers now merely helping men to choose courses, after Mid Year should arrange for frequent meetings and assign work in the field that the Freshman thinks will be his selection for concentration. Thus the choice made by Freshmen at the end of the year would be more permanent and the upsetting shifting at the end of Sophomore year largely eliminated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TUTORS FOR FRESHMEN | 10/2/1935 | See Source »

Greece has been redeemed by the Greeks who fought and bled for every inch of it, and not "through the benevolence of the Great Powers." You must be naive indeed to assign such idealism to these powers, who, for their gain, have created in Greece such internal antagonisms and hatreds that it will take many generations to wipe out. It is now history how during the War they financed Venizelos to set up a rebel government in Saloniki by promising that great diplomat territories which they had already assigned by secret treaty to Russia. After the War, in the Greek...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 8, 1935 | 4/8/1935 | See Source »

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