Word: cadman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...calendar for churchmen would be that Easter would be stabilized instead of roving capriciously anywhere between March 22 and April 25. Likewise the rest of the liturgical year would be immovable, since all the feasts except Christmas and Epiphany depend upon Easter. In Dayton last week Dr. Samuel Parkes Cadman, chairman of the Federal Council's Department of Relations with Churches Abroad, announced that heads of the Orthodox and Protestant Churches and, unofficially, the Roman Catholic Church favor a reformed twelve-month calendar like the one for which Chile plumped. In this, Christmas would always fall on Monday, New Year...
...Fundamentally Sound," The sequel to this patriotic Persian attempt to shake the foreigners down was a hasty visit to Teheran by Anglo-Persian's suave Board Chairman and "Petrol Diplomat." Sir John Cadman carried through the ensuing negotiations of high public policy on the private basis that "the Shah is my personal friend." The result was a new concession for Anglo-Persian running until 1993, but His Majesty squeezed down the area under lease to Anglo-Persian by more than half and while leaving Anglo-Persian in possession of its pipe lines deprived the British of exclusive Persian...
Nevertheless, under such presidents as Dr. North, Dr. Samuel Parkes Cadman and Bishop Francis John McConnell, the Federal Council has demonstrated that the Protestant Churches in the U. S. can get together to argue and act on common problems. Its trend through the years has been more & more liberal-always one jump ahead of the mass of church thought. In a way the Federal Council resembles the League of Nations. Its existence is more interesting than its achievements. Yet in a quarter century it also has achievements to its credit. Among them...
...concession to supplant the disputed D'Arcy oil leases of Anglo-Persian Oil Co. Ltd. was reached three weeks ago (TIME, May 1). Last week came the final agreement and publication of the terms. Well satisfied, Britain's "Petrol Diplomat," tall, professorial Chairman Sir John Cadman of Anglo-Persian, slipped a copy of the new agreement in his pocket, packed his grips and flew from Beirut to Marseilles, after months of bickering, threatening, appeals to the League of Nations, the new-agreement provides: 1) The period of the concession is 60 years from 1933. 2) Area...
...willing concession by Sir John Cadman. who wishes to pacify the opposition of U. S. oil men long anxious for some share in the Persian fields...