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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Duke of Norfolk, the Archbishop of Canterbury and 350 Officers of the Gold Staff who will act as ushers at the Abbey Ceremony, last week made a tour of 100 toilets in remodeled Westminster Abbey. These have been specially built for the convenience of Britain's aristocracy privileged to remain in the Abbey without a chance of escape for six and one-half hours. A jesting officer of the Gold Staff ordered all the cisterns to be tested together. As a workman obeyed the command, the Archbishop protested: "Tut, tut, that will never do. It's just like...
...Soviet Fleet contains only three battleships, each 26 years old. Besides plans for more submarines, cruisers, destroyers, Moscow announced that two new dreadnaughts would be built, each of 35,000 tons, equipped with 16-inch guns...
...Three years he spent in California selling a mouse poison of his own invention. Back in St. Louis he was elected constable, and next turned his hand to running a cinemansion, the Booker T. Washington, the present site of St. Louis' massive Municipal Auditorium. Showman Turpin prospered, built the gaudy Jazzland dance hall where brother Tom thumped the piano. When Charles Turpin died of an insect bite in 1935, he left a $119,000 estate consisting chiefly of 700 shares of American Telephone & Telegraph Co. stock...
...degree, then returned to the church as a Presbyterian student pastor. Before he even got around to studying theology, Preston Bradley withdrew from the Presbyterian Church, began preaching independently, set up Peoples Church as an "all-sectarian" group in a Chicago theatre. By 1926, when he built a $750,000 church on the North Side, Dr. Bradley had found Unitarianism to his taste, affiliated his congregation with the American Unitarian Association. Peoples Churchgoers contribute $4,000 a week, fill its 1,400 seats to overflowing at Sunday morning and evening services. For 14 years-longer than any minister west...
...section (upper & lower berths), it is a miniature compartment with a sliding metal door, a real bed which folds into the wall giving ample room for vertical dressing. The bed is 6 ft., 5 in. long, four inches more than the present standard berth. The roomette also has built-in toilet and closet, individual heating and ventilation. During the day the folded bed makes a sofa...