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Sixty-seven years ago the congregation of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, saw Pastor Henry Ward Beecher* mount the pulpit, accompanied by a trembling nine-year-old Negress. Then, while many a woman became hysterical, while many a man shed tears, famed Abolitionist Beecher turned his pulpit into a slave-pen, his sermon into an auctioneer's harangue, asked his hearers to bid $900 for this fine piece of colored flesh- Sally Maria Diggs, commonly known as "Pinky." Last week the congregation of Plymouth Church saw its present pastor share his pulpit with a Negress. They heard him recall that...
...Callers upon the President were: President Gerardo Machado of Cuba (see col. 3); Charles Beecher Warren, onetime U. S. Ambassador to Mexico; Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, who in return dined President and Mrs. Coolidge on their yacht Lyndonia; Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Stearns of Boston, who came for a stay of several weeks; Commander Francesco de Pinedo, Italian air ace, to whom Mr. Coolidge expressed his regrets over the recent burning of Signer de Pinedo's plane (TIME, April 18); J. Ramsay Macdonald, onetime British premier, who was accompanied by his daughter Ishbel...
There are "low temperature effects on plants," of which Dr. Rodney Beecher Harvey of the University of Minnesota is a connoisseur. He will go to England and Russia and demonstrate how a carload of green fruit can be ripened in transit with 40 cents' worth of ethylene...
...each year in providing one or more courses of lectures of highest character on literary and scientific subjects. Notable among the names of former Dowse lecturers are those of Edward Everett, 1811, Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1821, Charles Sumner, 1830, Wendell Phillips, 1831. Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1864, and Henry Ward Beecher...
...charged up like a battery." Thus spoke alluring Aimee Semple McPherson in Manhattan last week when she began her conquest of sin there. Said an oldtimer: "I've heard 'em all ... She's the only one of the lot can touch Henry Ward Beecher...