Word: christian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...property he had sold Bishop Cannon listed "houses and lots, timber stumpage, coal, cotton and bank stocks and stocks and bonds listed on the New York Stock Exchange." He said other brokers of his were his personal acquaintances, Col. John P. Branch and Langbourne M. Williams of Richmond, "both Christian gentlemen...
Married. James Cash Penney Jr., son of the chain store tycoon and Prohibition zealot; to Miss Elinor Snyder of Manhattan and Rye, N.Y.; in Manhattan; by Dr. Daniel Alfred Poling, president of the International Society of Christian Endeavor, onetime official of the Anti-Saloon League...
...London the very Rev. William Ralph ("Gloomy Dean") Inge, author of Selections from the German Mystics, Personal Idealism and Mysticism, Types of Christian Saintliness, Speculum Animae, speaking last week to the Sunlight League, took note of Continental nudism and said: "There is nothing objectionable in it, but it is a matter of convention." He recited this limerick: Half an inch, half an inch shorter. The same skirts for mother and for daughter, When the wind blows, everything shows. Both what should and what hadn't oughter...
...S.T.B. from Boston University's Theological School. During the War he served as a second lieutenant of aviation. He was a member of Europe's Reconstruction Committee in 1919, and later a member of the Methodist Mission to China. For a time he wrote dispatches for the Christian Science Monitor from Russia and other parts of Europe...
President of the Christian Herald Corporation is Chain-Storeman James Cash Penney, friend of President Hoover, avid Dry. To please Mr. Penney, and also because it is his own conviction. Editor High often pens editorials loudly decrying the evils of drink, lauding the benison of Prohibition...