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...Kansas City. Most of his 400 parishioners were employes of the nearby Chevrolet plant, but a few were employers. At them Preacher Martin hammered Sunday after Sunday with his gospel of justice for workingmen. He protested publicly against the 75?-per-day wages which some members of his flock were paying, invited labor organizers to speak from his pulpit. Irate deacons soon gave him a choice of quitting his agitating or quitting his pulpit. He quit the latter, went to work for Chevrolet...
...another $213,000 and Eternal Road rehearsals resumed Nov. 29, 1936. There were three more postponements before the greatest night in a generation for New York's Jews at last arrived. With Sara Delano Roosevelt representing the Gentiles and Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise at the head of his flock, the lights went down...
...last 16 years the Hay Creek Ranch has been owned by William U. Sanderson, a onetime Australian sheepman, who took the Wichman house, ranch and cattle in Kauai in part payment for his ranch. The full price for Hay Creek remained a secret. Under Sheepman Sanderson its flock of 20,000 Rambouillets became the world's finest. For breeding purposes the Soviet Commissar of Agriculture has bought a total of 27,000. Hay Creek Rambouillet sheep are so big that the herders entertain visitors by riding them. Other Hay Creek livestock include 100 blooded horses, 5,000 purebred Herefords...
Rancher Wichman believes the drought era is over, plans to build up his new flock of sheep to 30,000. Son of a Honolulu sugar and cattle man, he fought in the French artillery after college, returned to San Francisco to buy a New York Stock Exchange seat, which he sold before Depression, retiring to Hawaii. Now he is returning to the mainland to educate his three sons...
...Rumania, and recently King Carol paid a state visit to Prague, placed similar munitions orders for Rumania with the great Skoda works. Not only was His Majesty feted discreetly by "Europe's Smartest Little Statesman," President Eduard Benes of Czechoslovakia, but the Archbishop of Prague permitted his flock to eat meat that Friday with abandon, and the electric works furnished current at reduced rates to citizens who strung up lights on their houses in honor of Carol...