Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...white Southern Methodists, numbers 300,000. Same 210,000 Negroes belong to black congregations of Northern Methodist jurisdiction, will be grouped in a jurisdiction of their own (against the will of many Negroes) if the proposed merger of Southern and Northern Methodists goes through (TIME, Aug. 26, 1935, et seq.). The church which Philadelphia's Bishop Allen founded claims 1,000,000 members in the U. S., West Indies and Africa. Governed by no central authority, it has 15 bishops and a clergy of 8,000. Host to last week's sequicentennial was Bishop David Henry Sims...
...with Anderson's second best oblations. The Star-Wagon lacks Playwright Anderson's customary magnitude, is bathed in a questionable, tepid philosophy, bumps to a bromidic finale. Reminiscent of sundry other tinkerings with the past (Berkeley Square, Dear Brutus, Merrily We Roll Along, If, One Sunday Afternoon, et al.), it has slight claim to originality...
...Oscar W. Hahn of Lincoln, Neb. (who traveled more than 50,000 mi. on the organization's expense account during her year in office), and set off at once with Legion officials to tour French battlefields and dedicate War memorials. La Société des 40 Hommes et 8 Chevaux is a fun-making Legion by-product whose 37,000 "voyageurs" (members) pay $10 initiation fee, $3 to $5 annual dues, attend to some of the Legion's serious child welfare work and a large portion of the intensive jollification. Last week, 10,000 40 & 8 voyageurs...
Indications were that neither Mussolini nor Hitler wanted to sign anything like a military alliance between Italy and Germany, but that both were eager to revive the Four-Power Pact of Britain, Italy, France and Germany (TIME, June 19, 1933 et ante) and revamp it into a Five-Power Pact by adding Poland. In this scheme for organizing a unity of states in Europe proper without the Soviet Union, the Dictators were reputed in London to have last week the goodwill of British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, could count on brilliant Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff to make plenty more...
...broad 57th Street and teeming Madison Avenue for the return from Salzburg, Paris, Vienna, London of the patrons by whose trade they live. Old and young art dealers were perking up despite the torpor of the stock market. Julien Levy, the introducer of Surrealist Salvador Dali (TIME, Dec. 14 et ante), pioneer in many a modern artist of fashion, announced the removal of his gallery into more spacious quarters on 57th Street. Meanwhile private and public galleries carried on with the last few weeks of their summer shows, adding here and there a room of new stuff...