Word: broads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which Philadelphia's Bishop Allen founded claims 1,000,000 members in the U. S., West Indies and Africa. Governed by no central authority, it has 15 bishops and a clergy of 8,000. Host to last week's sequicentennial was Bishop David Henry Sims, 47, a broad-shouldered six-footer who, from Philadelphia, supervises 700 churches in the East and one in Bermuda...
...attractive observation point. His routine: in season, every day from 7:30 a. m. until 4:30 p. m. to stay on the mountain tallying birds, while his wife stays at the foot of the mountain directing visitors, mostly neighbors. Majority of birds that fly over are ordinary broad-winged hawks, sharp-shinned hawks, eastern red-tailed hawks. Among thousands, however, are the rare golden eagles, turkey vultures, bald eagles, an occasional gyrfalcon flying down from Greenland...
About the current state of the New York Stock Market, whose six-week decline has been attributed by many to thinness of trading brought on by SEC regulation, Chairman Douglas dropped several broad hints: "From time to time we hope to be able to get at the root of market trends. If it is natural, economic forces, that is one thing. If it is artificially caused, that is something else. You should remember that we are not interested in prices as such. . . . We want a free market, and prices will always go up & down in a free market, depending upon...
...missions. It was called The Drama of Missions to Spread Throughout the World the Glory of the Light That All Nations May See and Know Him. It had its genesis a year ago when Pennsylvania's Bishop Francis Marion Taitt, ordinarily a scholarly, retiring churchman, marched down Broad Street, with austere little Bishop William Thomas Manning of New York, other dignitaries and Episcopal laity, singing Onward Christian Soldiers. The Episcopal missionary budget was short once more-$250,000 worth-and Bishop Taitt was doing his part by holding a mission mass meeting in the Academy of Music. Soon...
Before starting on his Western trip last week (see p. 11), the President announced that he had made plans for a new foundation which would be a national extension of Warm Springs. It will try to co-ordinate research on cause, cure and prevention; conduct a "broad-gauged educational campaign"; disseminate information to physicians. It will not be under the Public Health Service, will be financed, like Warm Springs, from the proceeds of the President's annual birthday balls...