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...Baltimore's Federal District Judge William Caldwell Coleman, who had pronounced the Act unconstitutional "in its entirety" (TIME, Nov. 18). They also had the opinion of a Philadelphia law firm and of a Philadelphia lawyer, onetime (1922-27) U. S. Senator George Wharton Pepper. A stanch Republican, a devout Episcopalian whose portly figure is as familiar in Philadelphia as the facade of Independence Hall, Lawyer Pepper set a U. S. record for per-vote campaign expenditures when he ran unsuccessfully for re-election in 1926 ($2.42 per Bepper ballot...
...latter, a devout Episcopalian, greeted Bishop Ryan as one born Midwesterner to another, said: "The land which you left to come East 14 years ago has changed considerably in those years. We need pioneers. To enter upon this new world calls for an adventuresome spirit, for dauntless courage. The world of which I am speaking is just finding itself. Torn by doubts and uncertainty, by unemployment and financial disaster, it is awakening to the fact that there is still a God in the heavens. . . . May your Episcopate succeed in fanning this tiny spark of divine ambition in the hearts...
...quite so many of China's military élite. Even the great has-been among Chinese war lords, strapping, whimsical and always surprising "Christian Marshal" Feng Yu-hsiang, trekked down from his retirement near the Tai Shan ("Sacred Mountain") to announce good humoredly that he is "now a devout Buddhist...
...religious books and sex manuals, busies himself at all times waging guerrilla warfare against the churches of his Enemy. Legalistically Freethinker Lewis hardly ever wins a battle. In the New York courts where he does most of his fighting, the judges are likely to be good Roman Catholics or devout Jews. Last week the Enemy of God was again trying to have the law on his adversary, unsuccessfully as ever...
...beans were prized in China 5,000 years ago, were first brought to the U. S. in 1804 by a Yankee clipper. Most famed U. S. soy-bean user is Henry Ford, devout believer in manufacturing as an outlet for agricultural products. In 20 small, scattered factories. Ford has been making a hard, easily cleaned enamel from the bean oil, and from the bean meal, such molded plastic parts as horn buttons, gear lever caps, dash panels and distributor covers. This year Ford will use the crop from 61,500 soy-bean acres...