Word: churches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...automobile of James Thomas Heflin, junior-junior, that is, to the senior Senator from Alabama. Junior Heflin was also lodged in jail, charged with drunkenness, with violating the state prohibition law. Results: Heflin Jr. received a visit from the pastor of St. Paul's' Methodist Episcopal Church of Columbus, Ga., the Rev. Marvin H. Heflin, brother of James Thomas ("Tom Tom") Heflin Senior. It was junior Heflin's third conspicuous episode of the kind in six months (TIME, 2 refs. July 1). Released on bond, he said he was "worried over his rundown physique...
...Chicago gangsters in a loop dive, other scenes of the same gangsters being converted "to the religion of Henry Ford,'' by a bawdily singing Salvation Army worker. Then the curtain rose on the third act, entitled "In the Cathedral of the New Religion." The scene was a church interior. Over the high altar hung a sign "BETHLEHEM STEEL IS BEST." In the wall were three enormous glass paintings, prominently labeled, depicting three white-robed and haloed saints. There was a mummy-like SAINT JOHN (Rockefeller), a scrawny SAINT HENRY (Ford) and a blue-nosed SAINT PIERPONT (Morgan). From...
Prohibition was a subject worthy of the public prints. "The Act of Parliament to prevent the selling of Gin, being to take place on Tomorrow, Mother Gin lay in State yesterday, at a Distiller's Shop in Swallow Street near St. James's Church; but to prevent the ill Consequences of such a Funeral, a neighboring Justice took the Undertaker, his Men, and all the Mourners into Custody...
Margaret Sanger, American Birth Control League President, returning from Europe, prophesied Roman Catholic opposition to birth control would soon end. Said she: "A pronouncement from the Vatican denying that the Church is opposed to the practice of the dissemination of necessary information is certain to come." Her alleged discoveries abroad: In France, State opposition is greater than Church opposition; in Germany, Roman Catholics practice birth control without the clergy's criticism...
...autogiro, debarked at Manhattan last week, met his serious, rich friend Harold F. Pitcairn, 32, and went down to the latter's city, Bryn Athyn, Pa., near Philadelphia. There the Spaniard, who lives in England most of the time, stripped off his coat and near the Swedenborgian Church which Mr. Pitcairn and his two brothers are building according to their late father's bequest, made the first autogiro flight...