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...American Gothic made him an overnight sensation at the age of 38, Painter Wood's life was a constant fight against poverty. He was born in 1892 on a farm in Iowa's rolling Jones County. When his farmer father died, the Wood family moved to nearby Cedar Rapids, where ten-year-old Grant helped support his mother and three other children by doing chores for the neighbors. After working his way through high school, he drifted about the Middle West as a jewelry craftsman, a night watchman in a mortuary, a country schoolteacher. In 1913 he managed...
...biggest Presbyterian church in the world (First Church, Seattle, 6,920 members) last week ended a 17-month battle over who should succeed the late, beloved, arch-Fundamentalist Dr. Mark A. Matthews (6 ft. 5 in. "Tall Cedar of the Sierras") as its pastor. Called by a vote of 349-to-83 (one-sixteenth of the congregation) was eloquent, diplomatic, athletic Dr. F. Paul McConkey of Detroit. During the 17-month squabble, the parish lost seven of its 26 branch churches, 1,100 members...
Ordinarily the annual election of officers on the Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Gazette is strictly local news, if that, but this year it was different. Elections last week involved a conspicuous character. He was Verne Marshall, recent Gazette editor and fireball isolationist head of the No Foreign War Committee. The Gazette Co. supplanted him as secretary, which put him clean out of the newspaper...
...returned to edit after his expensive isolationist spree. (He had put up about $55,000 for full-page ads for the No Foreign War Committee.) More certain was the strong opposition to Marshall's steaming isolationist propaganda on page one of the Gazette, particularly on the part of Cedar Rapids' large Czech population...
...Some 8,000 evacuees now occupy 31 new national camp schools run by the Government. They live in cedar houses, have plenty of room to play. They learn, besides ABCs, to garden and mend shoes, and they enjoy getting even with unpopular masters by calling them such names as "Old Heinkel" and "Dive-Bombing Smith." Each camp (enrollment: about 250) costs around $150,000 to build and $30,000 a year to run. So popular are they that the Government indicated they might be continued after...