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...Salads! After being received in Rome by Il Duce, Premier Lyons, who in Paris had made no effort to meet Premier Laval or any other French statesman, cried, "I want to pay homage to Mussolini. . . . He has done immense good." At the Vatican devout Joseph Aloysius and Enid Lyons, who in Scotland had been jeered by a handful of irrepressibles as "Papists!" knelt before the Supreme Pontiff. His Holiness imparted the Apostolic Benediction and observed, "We still preserve a most pleasant recollection of the great triumph of the Church represented in the Eucharistic Congress at Sydney, Australia" (TIME, Sept...
...with English kept his marks low at Ohio Wesleyan for two more years, forced him to bolster his scholarships by cooking for a professor. Then, mastering English, he made money by lecturing on Africa before Ohio lunch clubs and church groups, finished his course with a creditable record. A devout Episcopalian, he has been active in Y. M. C. A. and student welfare work, once served as president of Cosmopolitan Clubs in 17 Ohio colleges including...
...McDowell was a devout Episcopalian. He preferred to operate on Sundays so that the prayers of the patient and friends would guide his knives, forceps and needles. For extra heavenly help during the death-defying operation on Mrs. Crawford, he waited for Christmas Day which that year fell on Sunday...
...Detroit devout Stanislaus Felix Hausner, Polish born aviator, who once spent eight days clinging to the tail of a wrecked plane in mid-Atlantic, crashed to his death while stunting over a Pilsudski memorial service, but of all the memorial services throughout the world, the most dramatic incident occurred in the town of Rowne on the Polish-Ukraine frontier. While bells tolled and villagers hurried to the church for a Requiem Mass, a shot was suddenly fired from the Russian side of the frontier. Polish guards tumbled out, rifles in hand. Up rode a long-coated Soviet cavalryman begging permission...
...Presbyterian in Baltimore. That sum was bequeathed to Broadway Church by its longtime Fundamentalist pastor, Rev. Dr. Walter Duncan Buchanan, who died last year, aged 74, worth $1,086,576 which he had largely acquired by marrying into R. G. Dun & Co. (now Dun & Bradstreet). Dr. Buchanan appointed three devout Presbyterians as watchdogs to see that his church should have the $77,296 only so long as its pastor adheres to "the Presbyterian Confession of Faith in the U. S. A. as of the year...