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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...believed that pure carbohydrates, proteins and fats alone were sufficient nutrition to supply an animal with its essential energy, to provide it with material for new growth, to replace its waste tissue. Researchers, including Dr. Hopkins, discovered that animals fed on "pure" diets lost weight and died. He found (1906) that a little milk in the diet kept the animals from dying and concluded that the milk must contain some unknown ingredient (vitamin...
Rockefeller Dollars. To help found the Institute in 1925. John D. Rockefeller Jr. gave $10,000; Julius Rosenwald $2,500; Lee, Higginson & Co. $1,000; International General Electric Co. $500; Thomas W. Lament $500. These and other donations from countries facing the Pacific Ocean reached a total of $90,000. The first Institute was held in Honolulu. So was the second Institute in 1927. Last week in Kyoto the third Institute...
...with Germany. So were the U. S. Churches. Paul Jones, socialist, pacifist, Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Utah, did not believe in war and said so. A commission of the House of Bishops found him guilty of "promulgating unpatriotic doctrines," of being affiliated with questionably loyal organizations. They asked for his resignation and got it. Came the Armistice. The U. S. and its churches were no longer at war with Germany. But Bishop Paul Jones was still a bishop without a diocese. He became one of the secretaries of the pacifist, interdenominational Fellowship of Reconciliation in Manhattan...
...Seditious in wartime, pacifism is not so un-Christian in times of peace. Last month, when the Episcopal diocese of Southern Ohio found itself without a Bishop because of the resignation of Bishop Boyd Vincent, 84, and the serious illness of Bishop Coadjutor Theodore Irving. Reese, Bishop Paul Jones was called to be acting Bishop. Last week he took his post. Few Ohioans felt that the Episcopal Church and the safety of the nation were thus endangered...
...charming, he declared, and could be bought for $20,000. Dealer Demotte laughed, said that he had already bought that diptych, paid only $10,000. The bewildered Viennese returned to Europe, went to Zagreb, investigated. He found that a copy had recently been substituted for the original...