Word: drake
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fairsite, Soldier Field, Field Museum and Grant Park, juts first right then left and north again to cross the Chicago River and the Ogden Slip with the Tribune Tower looming high on the left,* keeps on to wind around swank Gold Coast's apartments and the Drake Hotel, then north once more on the express highway of Lake Shore Drive. It was at the Chicago River that President Roosevelt paused to make his speech and it was there that the last important link was last week completed at a cost of $11,500,000, $2,324,881 of which...
...Peoria, Ill., Rev. Dr. Beryl Gilbert Drake, an evangelist trained under Aimee Semple McPherson, runs Trinity Tabernacle, speaks over the radio, publishes a weekly paper for his devoted flock. As head of Trinity Tabernacle Corp. he is entitled under an Illinois charter to ordain ministers. One night last week 1.500 people packed Trinity Tabernacle to behold Evangelist Drake perform his 15th ordination. While the candidate knelt before him the evangelist spoke routine words of blessing. Then Dr. Drake lifted the newly created minister to a chair behind the pulpit and a middle-aged woman who had been hovering...
After his ordination, Minister Jaynes proudly showed off his certificate while Evangelist Drake, as if defensively, said: "This lad's only seven years in age, but 70 in experience." Piped Rev. Charles Jaynes Jr.: "I want to be a preacher, a drummer, and I also want to drive all kinds of fire trucks, and the chief's car, and to be a policeman, a chief engineer, that's all I want to be-oh, yes, and I want to be a ballplayer...
...last year's discovery by the Los Angeles Ministerial Association that its "Spiritual Psychic Science Church" was selling ordination certificates for cash, was willing to accept $10 even from "Rev. Drake Goo-Goo," Funnyman Joe Penner's duck (TIME, April 20, 1936): Revocation last week of the "Church's" charter, after court hearings...
Charles W. Huntley, Schenectady, New York, assistant in Psychology; Donald V. McGranahan '35, Malden, assistant in Psychology; Fillmore H. Sanford, Luray, Virginia, assistant in Psychology; Wondell H. Bash, Dos Moines, Iowa, Drake '35, assistant and tutor in Sociology...