Word: booth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among the candidates who showed up to best advantage were: catchers, I. R. Duchin '27, H. L. de Rham '27, J. D. Cotter '26; pitchers, J. E. Toulmin '25, R. H. Booth Jr. '27, C. P. Clifford '27, H. G. Phelps '27, D. G. Casto '26, G. McN. Gates '27; first basemen, R. H. Field '26, W. P. Ellison '27; second basemen, Philip Keene '25, B. M. Rice '25; shortstops, Willard Howard '27, C. S. Gross '27, J. B. Dacey '26; third basemen, H. E. Slayton Jr. '26, C. O. Erickson '27, Butler Cox 27; outfielders, C. L. Todd...
Trouble. The Army has advanced with remarkably little internal friction. It has not, however, been easy to conduct the American campaign from the London headquarters. In 1896, Bramwell Booth's brother, Ballington, and his sister-in-law, Maud Ballington Booth, held sway on this Continent. They seceded, forming the Volunteers of America. Most of the Army officers, however, remained loyal to the London Commander-in-Chief, who promptly appointed his sister Evangeline to the difficult American command. Now Evangeline is a very great woman. She began her career by peddling copies of the War Cry and has done...
Origin. General Booth's father, William, left the Methodist ministry in 1865 in order to succor the lost sheep of London's East End. Thirteen years later, William and his wife Catherine* whipped their missions into a military organization. Their Army grew phenomenally as it advanced from post to post. The conquest of the U. S. dated from...
...pinch. Rumors that General Bramwell would oust Commander Evangeline have been almost annual. The latest item of debate is an interpretation of a London rule which, some say, would prohibit Army officers from joining such "secret" societies as the Elks or Masons. Interviewed on the S. S. Homeric, General Booth declared there was no such rule. The trouble, it appears, lies deeper...
...General Booth proceeded to Canada to conduct conferences at Toronto and Winnipeg. There he was congratulated on the completion of 50 years service, the marks of which he bears with dignity-snow-white hair and snow-white sideburns. He reported new advances of his Army into Brazil, Czcho-Slovakia, Hungary, East Africa, and expressed himself eminently pleased with Commander Evangeline's conduct of the campaign...