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...President Hill's $2,000,000 bonus (TIME, March 23). When balloting time came Dissenter Rog ers saw his candidate for the directorate receive a paltry 11,980 votes out of 2,627,953. Angry, he spoke of carrying on his uphill anti-Hill fight in the courts. Emptier Plates. From a sales volume of $25,000 when it was founded in 1904, McBride Studios, Inc. of Manhattan, grew until last year it did almost a half-million dollars' gross - one of the largest companies of its kind in the world. Its busi ness: altars, communion railings, statuary...
...Everywhere, and especially in the towns, the churches are growing emptier and the majority of Christians in Russia today are over 30. The undoubted success of the anti-religious movement is probably in a great measure due to the fact that Communism has become the new religion. . . . If a Communist member of an otherwise Christian family dies, he is not allowed to be given a Christian burial and must have a Communist funeral. As profession of atheistic opinions is one of the necessary qualifications for membership in the Communist party, it is presumed that this is what the dead person...
...China Famine Relief Fund Inc. of Manhattan is now the only major U. S. organization collecting and distributing funds to fill 12,000,000 Chinese tummies which grow daily emptier. Originally the C. F. R. F. appealed-and is still appealing - for $10,000,000 - less than $1 for each hungry Chinese. Some months ago General James G. Harbord, President of the Radio Corporation of America, resigned as Chairman of the Fund-which has now collected a scant $300,000. Last week General Harbord's successor, the Rev. Dr. S. Parkes Cadman, President of the Federal Council of Churches...
...page of history turned. The gunboats could have raked Hankow, the marines could have shot down the mob-but an idea spiked the guns. John Chinaman, slop emptier, had bluffed the white...
...chancel door opened and a man in black cassock entered and gravely sat down. He raised his eyes--serious eyes in a face deepened through experience and thought. It was Bishop Brent whose name is associated with man work in the Philippines. The empty pews appeared still emptier...