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Manhattan's conycatchers used to do a profitable business in selling City Hall, Brooklyn Bridge, Central Park to innocent strangers. Last September in Harlem, an innocent and querulous Negro Methodist named Rev. Davis Frazer, preaching in a shop for which his congregation was growing too large, let it be known that he was in the market for a church. Two strangers approached him, told him they were agents for a bank which had a fine, large church for sale, price $96,000, on the installment plan. Parson Frazer paid $22.50 down, was told that it would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: $22.50 Down | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

...last week, Parson Frazer had paid $850 for his church. Impatient to take possession, he prodded the agents. Finally they gave him two keys, and wished him well. Eagerly he went to the church, found that the keys did not fit, was shocked to learn that the Seventh Day Adventist congregation within did not know that their church had been sold. Parson Frazer took to his bed with chagrin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: $22.50 Down | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

Backs: D. W. Bensley '40, Tom Boulger '40, Bob Burnett '39, Myron Cohen '39, Bill Coleman '40, Ace Cordingly '40, Frazer Curtis '40, James Devine '40, Phil Downes '40, Austie Harding '39, Larry Johnson '39, Ray Jones '39, Torbie MacDonald '40, Ed Robinson '40, Art Row '40, Ernie Sargent '40, and James Buslong...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 88 Men Contend for Positions on Next Year's Grid Squad; 46 Freshmen Out | 3/23/1938 | See Source »

Though some 40 suits are to be filed against Mayor Hague's officials by C. I. 0. organizers and sympathizers, the C. I. O. places most faith in one filed last week by C. I. O. Counsel Dean Spaulding Frazer of the Newark University Law School in Federal Court on the ground that the plaintiffs -the Civil Liberties Union, the Steel Workers Organizing Committee and several C. I. O. unions-were "without adequate remedy in the local court of law." In substance, they asked for a perpetual injunction to restrain Mayor Hague from ignoring the Bill of Rights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Greatest Show in Jersey | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

AFTERMATH-Sir James George Frazer -Macmillan ($3). Supplementary volume to The Golden Bough, classic collection of primitive customs, beliefs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Mar. 15, 1937 | 3/15/1937 | See Source »

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