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...Shantung province (TIME, Jan. 23 et seq.) and U. S. citizens are being besought for the comparatively modest contribution of $10,000,000 by the National Committee for China Famine Relief. Last week the N. C. C. F. R. chose as its Chairman the Rev. Dr. S. Parkes Cadman, writer of daily homilies for the New York Herald Tribune, and president of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America...
Laymen. Publishers also heard fine words from the mouths of Rev. Samuel Parkes Cadman, president of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America; Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr., president of General Motors Corp.; Count Hermann Keyserling, philosopher; Mayor James J. Walker of New York City; M. H. Aylesworth, president of the National Broadcasting Corp. The only backslapper at the convention was a onetime blackface comedian named Frank Colton who was hired to parade through corridors of the Waldorf-Astoria as Maj. Amos Hoople, comic strip character syndicated...
Samuel Parkes Cadman. 63-year-old Brooklyn clergyman and dispenser of comfort by correspondence, addressing a meeting of Baptist deacons last week in Atlanta, Ga., mused wistfully: "I wish that we might have one more Protestant Mayor of New York before...
...Harry Pinneo Dewey, Plymouth Church, Minneapolis, has $12,000 per year. Dr. S. Parkes Cadman, Central Church, Brooklyn, gets $12,000 a year, and perhaps as much again for daily column writing...
London despatches quoted Dr. S. Parkes Cadman as saying in St. Martin's Church, London: ". . . As for fundamentalism, I read the Bible like I eat fish-leave the bones and eat the flesh." Substituting "like" for "as" as a conjunction is a provincialism deprecated in good grammatical usage...