Word: conventioners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In Rochester-city of optical glass, dentists' supplies, kodaks, typewriter ribbons and rich (Eastman-endowed), up-&-coming University of Rochester-the National Puzzlers' League last week met in convention and concocted an anagram: "I, LAITY, CAN CHEER ATOMIC SCHEME." These letters, rearranged, also spell "Oh, Science! May it...
Overgrown Atoms. Headliner of the convention was a round-faced, gum-chewing professor of Columbia University, Harold Clayton Urey, who won a Nobel Prize in 1934 for his spectrographic identification of deuterium, the doubleweight hydrogen atom which in combination with oxygen makes heavy water.
The whole membership of the American Newspaper Guild would not undo last week what its delegates had already done at the smoothly-steered June convention. In a referendum forced by the Columbus, Ohio unit which reconsidered every resolution passed at the convention, 5,083 of the Guild's paid...
¶ A vigorous unofficial body of U. S. Episcopalians, comparable to the radical Methodist Federation for Social Service, is the Church League for Industrial Democracy. For more than a decade its executive secretary has been an amiable, youngish man named Rev. William Benjamin (''Bill") Spofford, managing editor of...
Last week New York's Bishop William Thomas Manning, who faces a convention fight if his rigid ideas on marriage and divorce are to prevail over those of churchmen who would liberalize Episcopal canons, let loose a blast at the C. L. I. D. program. He wrote to Episcopal...