Word: diehl
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Zara, the only hotel that will accept the committee is the Bonnie Bell, crawling with roaches and lechers. In the night, dark sedans run round & round the hotel. May Diehl, the committee's case worker, whimpers atop a chair. In another room the teacher, Tom Pettee, strokes the pretty hair of Carol Gillman, an impetuous divorcee. The others discuss tactics. A gang of local "antis" come in, carry out the committee's two leaders, take them to a dark swamp, thrash them unconscious. Then they turn lights and police on their victims. "I swear!" they say. "They have...
...free will in "glimpsing God's purpose in nature and sharing that purpose." Last week Dr. Compton embarked upon further, and wider, institutional activities. He accepted the Protestant chairmanship of the National Conference of Jews & Christians, a position left vacant by the death of Newton Diehl Baker (TIME, Jan. 3). Physicist Compton will be specially concerned with N. C. J. C.'s educational work, will consult regularly with his Catholic and Jewish cochairmen, Columbia Professor Carlton Joseph Huntley Hayes and Businessman Roger Williams Straus, on broad policies of maintaining goodwill among the three great faiths...
Died. Newton Diehl Baker, 66, lawyer, scholar, Woodrow Wilson's peace-loving Wartime Secretary of War who organized an army of 4,000,000 men in less than two years; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Cleveland, Ohio. An early fighter for Cleveland reform and twice its mayor, he turned from trustbuster to corporation lawyer, from stanch Democrat to New Deal hater who this year helped contest TVA on behalf of power companies...
Currently headed by Roger Williams Straus, good Jew, Professor Carlton Joseph Huntley Hayes of Columbia University, good Catholic, and, until his death last week (see p. 41), by the late Newton Diehl Baker, good Episcopalian, the N. C. J. C. last week launched its tenth anniversary celebration. For this, President Roosevelt, honorary chairman of the organization, wrote a letter declaring that "philosophies dominant in totalitarian states must not be allowed to disrupt the cordial relationships which now exist among Protestants, Catholics and Jews in America...
Northwestern won last year's Big Ten title mostly by hard running. Last week Michigan, which once won Big Ten titles with embarrassing regularity, stopped Northwestern's runners but was unable to keep Don Heap from passing to Cleo Diehl for one touchdown. Score...