Word: brewster
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...consolation-religion. He was a pious Methodist whom Wall Street called "Deacon Dan." In the days of his wealth he endowed Drew Theological Seminary (now University) at Madison, N. J. He also contributed heavily to a young ladies' seminary and three churches near his birthplace-Brewster Methodist Episcopal Church, Mt. Carmel Baptist Church, Daniel Drew Methodist Episcopal Church. Last week, still grateful to "Deacon Dan," Methodists gathered at Carmel to honor his unsavory memory...
...Carefully sniffish toward anything "practical," Yale let its single college course in public-speaking lapse last year, met protests by pleading economy. Last week the Yale News, whose lively undergraduate chairman is Jonathan Brewster Bingham, youngest of the seven sons of Connecticut's onetime Senator Hiram Bingham, took rich Yale at its word. Announcing that it would sponsor the non-credit course, the News persuaded a professor to lecture on his own time, hired a fraternity house for a classroom, undertook to pay all expenses, including a taxi to & from class for the professor and one assistant...
...sooner had Representative O'Connor got well started toward headlines, investigating the mutual accusations of Representative Brewster and Brain Truster Tom Corcoran, than Senator Black stole the front page from him by a more spectacular investigation of fake telegrams from Pennsylvania (TIME, July...
That was the "threat." Representative Brewster, nervously drumming his fingers on the committee table, was growing livid. Witness Corcoran continued...
...anguished snarl pierced the caucus room. It was the voice of Ralph Brewster crying: "You're a liar...