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...Wilbur Emery Hammaker, 60, pastor for 21 years of Trinity M. E. Church in Youngstown, Ohio, and Dr. Charles Wesley Flint, 57, Chancellor of Syracuse University, were both rightly regarded by the conference as conservative Methodists. Students at Syracuse, of which Dr. Flint has been head since 1922, professed to believe he had wished to retire because antics of some of its young men, it is still typical of how a good-sized ministerial training school operates. The fact that Union matriculates Presbyterians, Methodists, Baptists, exposes them to the religious views of Congregationalists, Episcopalians, Disciples of Christ and then returns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Battle of Columbus (Concl.) | 5/25/1936 | See Source »

...Manhattan's banking house of Lehman Brothers wrote a long letter to John J. Burns, general counsel to the Securities & Exchange Commission. They wanted to know, in effect, whether it would be legal for Lehman clients and certain associated bankers to stabilize the market for stock in Flint-kote Co., control of which Lehman bought from Sir Henri Deterding's Royal Dutch-Shell (TIME, March 30). Lehman was distributing stock in this old U. S. roofing and asphalt concern to the public, and the open market price of the stock had dropped $3 per share below the figure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Lawyers' Letters | 4/27/1936 | See Source »

...BEWILDERED PATIENT-Marian Staats Newcomer-Hale, Cushman & Flint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Choosing a Doctor | 4/20/1936 | See Source »

Fortnight ago in Syracuse, N. Y., a postal clerk came upon a parcel addressed to "Comrade Chancellor Charles Flint, Syracuse University." When the parcel gave off a muffled tick, the clerk turned white as a miller, rushed the parcel to the postmaster. The postmaster sent for the police. The police sent for a Department of Justice expert on infernal machines. The expert dunked the parcel in a pail of water, prodded it with a long pole, gingerly took it apart. Disclosed was an arrangement of cardboard tubes, cotton wadding, piano wire, an alarm clock works and some sort of granulated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Fun at Syracuse | 3/23/1936 | See Source »

Investigation disclosed that the parcel had been mailed from the nearby University postal station. While Syracusans last week gossiped excitedly about the bold "Communist" student plot against the life of conservative, close-mouthed Chancellor Flint, up stepped a timid undergraduate in the University's School of Architecture to name himself and 25 fellow-students as senders of the "bomb." Haled into court to face charges of disorderly conduct, the 25 students sheepishly explained that they had merely wanted to have some fun, pointed out that the "bomb" was harmless. The white powder: sugar. Federal authorities scratched their heads, admitted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Fun at Syracuse | 3/23/1936 | See Source »

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