Word: duke
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...taught social ethics there since 1938. His father was a North Carolina banker who, says Pope, "knew there were some things going on in the world of business, finance and industry which were hard to square with the New Testament." When son Listen came home from Duke University in 1929 with a Phi Beta Kappa key and an urge to study Christian sociology instead of investment banking, his father listened sympathetically...
...went back to Duke for a B.D., earned his Ph.D. in sociology at Yale soon after joining the Divinity School faculty. From 1944 to 1948 Congregationalist Pope edited the magazine Social Action, and lectured at Manhattan's Presbyterian Institute of Industrial Relations. He arbitrated labor disputes, helped reorganize New Haven's Labor College, and grew to be well-known for his unflagging opposition to Communism in labor unions. His appointment by the Yale Corporation insured that the Divinity School would continue to emphasize what Pope himself calls the "study of society as it is, in relation to what...
...shooting occurred on the vast plantation of Baker's mother where the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and other celebrities have been entertained. The plantation, located 12 miles north of Tallahassee, Florida, is a mecca for hunters...
...like old times for the oldtimers vacationing on the Riviera. The Duke of Windsor stepped out for a wind-and-rainswept game of golf with his old friend, Belgium's exiled King Leopold (see cut)^; later on, some of the old gang dropped in for dinner at the Windsors. Winston Churchill came with his wife and daughter Sarah; Leopold came with wife Princess de Rethy, son Prince Baudouin and daughter Princess Joséphine Charlotte. Rounding out the party: Rumania's ex-King Michael and wife Princess Anne of Bourbon-Parma...
German equivalent of "Cheerio!" Mary bequeathed a fur-piece to one of her former lovers, the Duke of Braganza, and suggested that he hang it over his bed. Then (as Lonyay reconstructs the police and medical evidence) Rudolph blew the top of her head off with his revolver and, after some ten hours, summoned the courage to shoot himself...