Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President elected was Samuel Parkes Cadman of Brooklyn...
...Richman College, London, to Philology and the Classics. He was ordained at 26, after study at Illinois Wesleyan. In his handling of his second pastorate (at Yonkers, N. Y.), he exhibited a genius for organizing that lifted him high and brought under his hand four Manhattan churches. The Brooklyn call came in 1901, to the Central Congregational Church. He is known as a pulpit orator, widely read, hard of head, a man whose breadth of information (his specialty is the Oxford Movement) keeps abreast of his breadth of interest (his hobby is collecting antique chinaware and furniture...
...Administrative Committee reported on its plans for a great national conference on the Christian way of life. Said Dr. John M. Moore of Brooklyn: "The idea has crossed the sea" (reference to England's conference at Birmingham last spring on Christian Politics, Economics and Citizenship known as Capec...
...committee of newspaper men last week voted Arthur Vance, pitcher on the Brooklyn "Dodgers," "most valuable to his team" of all players in the National Baseball League. In the American League, Pitcher Johnson of Washington was so voted (TIME, Sept...
Died. Monroe ("Dolly") Stark, 38, onetime (1911) shortstop for the Brooklyn National League Baseball Club; in Memphis, shot by an assassin, at his roadhouse...