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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Spiritual descendants of old German Pietists were the members of the "Community of True Inspiration" who, hounded from their homeland, settled at Ebenezer, N. Y. in 1843. Outgrowing this home, the community trekked westward to Amana, where it acquired 26.000 acres of good farmland. The colonists built seven villages of unpainted German-style houses...
...land, including 23 miles of navigable waterway and ten lakes. Neighbors like Edward F. Hutton and Ogden Reid collected their mail from Paul Smith's township postoffice, used electricity from Paul Smith's Light & Power Co., shunted their private cars onto a railway spur that the Smiths built from the New York Central at Lake Clear Junction. When the old hotel burned to the ground in 1930, Phelps Smith remarked that the hotel business was no longer what it had been anyway, replaced his father's palatial edifice with groups of snug cottages. He went on paying...
...many, argued one contributor to last week's A. M. A. Journal, are due to a zest to build, although every bed in a U. S. hospital represents a cost of from $5,000 to $7,500 in space and equipment. Currently about 600 new hospitals are being built or planned. Proposed expenditures...
...Gogarty is a distinguished throat specialist who works in an up-to-date hospital (built from profits from the Irish Sweepstakes), a married man and a father; but readers would hardly guess those facts from his book. Here he steers a carefree bachelor course from pubs to parties, escaping occasionally to drive his plane or shoot seals from a curragh, but always returning to drink with his friends, to be talked at and talk a sizzling blue streak. Only when the talk hovers on politics or poetry does the twinkle leave Gogarty's eye. "But nobody can betray Ireland...
...Subscriptions fell off but needy friends rallied to Allen's cause. Jordanstown's bosses dropped Allen a hint to mind his manners, but he went right ahead. Climax of his crusade was a parade of the underdogs, led by Dave and Allen, to the new meeting house built by painful comradely effort. When the cheering marchers got there, the chief of police and a committee of plug-uglies were waiting for them. In the riot Dave was shot, Allen clubbed. Then the meeting house was burned down. When Allen got out of jail he found his paper...