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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House of Bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church accepted the resignation of Rt. Rev. Hayward Seller Ablewhite, Bishop of Northern Michigan, ordered his name stricken from its rolls. Reason: the Bishop is serving one to ten years in Jackson, Mich., prison for embezzling $99,000 in diocesan funds (TIME, Aug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 20, 1939 | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...Admiral Yarnell last week Acting Secretary of the Navy Charles Edison said, "You were awarded the Distinguished Service Medal [Aug. 28, 1939] for exceptional ability, courage, tact. . . in . . . handling with the greatest skill . . . the many delicate situations that arose during the continued emergency in China. . . . The Secretary of the Navy regrets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Beached | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...French Army "so that I could kill some more Germans." And last week in Germany, his race had once again to pay for his crime. All during 1939 Jews in Germany have frantically sold their property at ruinous prices in efforts to pay their $400,000,000 fine. On Aug. 15 they made "final payments," but last week Count Lutz Schwerin von Krosigk announced that this has proved "not enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Second Squeeze | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...Aloe Plaza, outside St. Louis' Union Station, a crane last week deposited 19 excelsior-padded, jute-swathed statues on the pavement of a waterless fountain. The bulky packages looked like mummies but were the livelier fragments of a long controversy (TIME, Aug. 9, 1937; June 6, 1938) over nude statues in general, these in particular. They were the figures for famed Swedish Sculptor Carl Milles' Wedding of the Mississippi and the Missouri-known locally as Wedding in a Nudist Colony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Tempest in a Fountain | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...merely the loyal and submissive servant of his master. Moreover, he had come down definitely on the side of Peace a year before and it may have been difficult for him to adopt this course a second time. He invited me, however, to come and see him that (Aug. 30) afternoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: White Papers: More Good Reading | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

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