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Meeting in Indianapolis last week, the Federal Council of The Churches of Christ in America settled its affairs with calm and dispatch. After electing Rev. Dr. Albert William Beaven, evangelical Baptist, its new president (TIME, Dec. 12), the Council gave its vice-presidency, a new office, to Rev. Dr. Lewis Seymour Mudge, Presbyterian moderator. The Council's structure was tightened up, its meeting times changed from quadrennial to biennial, in accordance with committee recommendations which were practically all approved. Deferred until 1934 was a proposal to let the Federal Council administer for its constituents such activities as they...
...following dispatch direct from the White House was received late last night by R. H. Amberg '33, president of the Republican Club...
Into the complicated life of Hunter Wright now intruded the Press. Covering the lion hunt for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch was its energetic crime-news reporter, Alvin Goldstein, 1925 Pulitzer Prizewinner (for helping solve the Leopold & Loeb crime). The Post-Dispatch's up-&-coming rival, the Star-&-Times, had engaged United Press Correspondent Leland Chesley. Their rivalry became a feud when Reporter Goldstein claimed exclusive rights to take pictures and Hunter Wright supported his claim. The rival newshawks chartered separate boats...
...Then I signalled the boat. We decided to take the lions with us. . . . We headed north, away from Commerce, and put in at Thebes, Ill. From there I telephoned the story. . . . Three hours later we returned to Commerce with the lions. The Post-Dispatch and the A. P. were scooped by three editions...
What spiteful Zeus put into Pandora's famed box caused scarcely more confusion among the Greeks than occurred in all King George's capitals last week when all the King's Premiers opened their dispatch boxes on the same day and let out all the secret schedules of the twelve bilateral tariff agreements signed among all His Majesty's governments with nine bright red pens at the Ottawa Imperial Economic Conference (TIME...