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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after the one formed last summer in Chicago's Union League Club (TIME, Sept. 23). On the extreme Left is the Methodist Federation for Social Service, whose guiding spirits are its big, shrewd, sarcastic president, Bishop Francis John McConnell of New York, and its wiry lit tle British-born secretary, Professor Harry Frederick Ward of Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary. For 29 years the Federation has sniped at Capitalism with out attracting much attention. Last week, however, Hearstpapers were headlining PURGE OF PULPIT REDS DEMANDED as 75 members of the Federation sat down to a preConference meeting...
...stature and weight is easily modified by ... favorable conditions of life. In Europe there has been a gradual increase of bulk of body between 1850 and 1914. Adult immigrants who came to America from South and East Europe have not taken part in this general increase. . . . Their children, however, born in America, or who came here young, have participated in the general increase of stature of our native population. With this go hand in hand appreciable differences in bodily form. Just in the same way as the proportions of body, head and face of animals born in captivity change when...
Audrey Buller Parsons is tall, hand some, brunette. Her husband is slender, grey-haired Lloyd Parsons, who paints landscapes. Both were born in Montreal, both paint in the same studio overlooking Manhattan's Washington Square...
...bull-roaring denunciations have been returned with interest by many a patriot, professor, politician: he has been accused of slandering Abraham Lincoln, ruining the English language, taking money from the onetime Kaiser, spying for the Soviets. In 1928 Mencken published a collection of these attacks (Menckeniana, a Schimpflexicon). Born in Baltimore of German grandparentage. Mencken began to write "seriously" at 12, took T. H. Huxley (see below I for his god at 16. An amiable skeptic, short, fat. boyish to look at, he is fond of practical jokes. Some suspect his philological delvings are merely a form of involved japery...
...bachelor King's future wife, to whom the Commons was last week asked to allot $200,000 a year out of the Privy Purse.* This will be kept by the Keeper of the Privy Purse until King Edward marries. The other was the hypothetical Queen's first-born son. Last week the Select Committee allotted the non-existent Prince of Wales an annual $125,000, to start accumulating at once. Thus, even if Edward VIII marries within the year, the next Prince of Wales on his 21st birthday would step into a fortune of at least...