Word: christian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hired last week to fly her personal plane U. S. Citizen Julius Barr, onetime air chauffeur to Young Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang who recently kidnapped her husband (TIME, Dec. 21 et seq.). Modern Mme Chiang is expected to visit the U. S. soon, explain to Christian women's clubs about her Methodist husband's sore troubles as Dictator...
...sects have been more satisfactory to U. S. feminists than the Congregational-Christian Church. They have long ordained women to its ministry and of their 37 conference superintendents, whose jurisdiction is comparable to that of a bishop, one is female, Mrs. David E. Brown of the Middle Atlantic Conference. Though the No. 1 Congregationalist is Statistician Roger Babson, moderator of the Church's General Council, an honorary moderator is Dr. Mary Emma Woolley, retiring president of Mount Holyoke College. Last week female Congregationalists glowed with pride when they heard that one of their sex had been elected...
...article in the Spring number of the "North American Review" Dean Christian Gauss of Princeton makes some significant statements which may be of help in answering that ever-recurring question: "What's wrong with our colleges...
...Bragg, Sam Harris and John J. Raskob, who became interested in Nevada mining before and during Inflation, the list of permanent newcomers included Major Max C. Fleischmann, director of Standard Brands, famed Santa Barbara sportsman; Lewis Luckenbach (steamships); Arthur K. Bourne (Singer sewing machines); the fourth Earl of Cowley, Christian Arthur Wellesley, who came for a divorce, stayed to marry and settle down with his favorite nightclub hat-check girl. When William Randolph Hearst threatened to move away from California's taxes, Reno wired him an invitation, as yet unsuccessful...
...modern and efficient as the liquor trade is the aim of the Women's Christian Temperance Union's present $500,000 educational campaign. Last year it distributed a four-reel sound film entitled The Beneficent Reprobate in which appeared no drooling drunks or starving children but a frog named Elmer who passed out in a solution of 5% alcohol. W.C.T.U.'s national president is clever, plump, 65-year-old Mrs. Ida B. Wise Smith. An astute politician and public agitator, Mrs. Smith clicks off such anti-liquor statistics as the following: Rejections of insurance applicants for "heavy...