Word: gammon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...racial discrimination is practiced. Last February, however, when the United Methodist Council on the Future of Faith & Service met in Chicago's big (3,000-room) Stevens Hotel one of its speakers had trouble. He was the Rev. Karl E. Downs, A. B. (Samuel Houston College), B. D. (Gammon Theological Seminary), M. S. T. (Boston University School of Theology), a 26-year-old Pasadena Negro who had been invited to speak to the conference on behalf of "Methodist Youth." Last week in Zion's Herald, venerable Boston Methodist weekly, he described his experience, his emotions, his triumph...
...greatest grape crop in California's history, 2,409,000 tons, including raisin and table grapes-and the Wine Institute had just reported to its members that the U. S. will this year drink 63,000,000 gallons of California wine-two quarts for every man, woman, gaffer & gammon in the country...
...Burns Lake, B. C.'s hospital last week, suffering from broken leg and exposure, Prospector Arthur Gammon told how a little black bear had saved his life. Injured by a falling tree, Prospector Gammon had started to crawl to his cabin two miles away, been overtaken by a snow-storm after six days. He inched into a cave, found a bear inside. The bear did not budge. When he resumed his crawl, the bear went with him. One day he fainted, came to to find the bear holding off an encircling pack of coyotes. Still standing guard, the bear...
...size of the gift was no more gratifying than the donor, the late Roger Deering of the third generation of Chicago's famed, harvester- making Deering family. Roger's grandfather, William Deering of Maine, was nearing 50 when he visited the Midwest, found his old friend Elijah Gammon struggling with throat trouble and a manufacturing concession for Marsh harvesters. Elijah Gammon told William Deering that his machine was better than any built by powerful old Cyrus Hall McCormick, inventor of the reaper. William invested $40,000 in the concession, moved to Evanston, Ill., soon bought out his partner...
...ever had before." It was agreed that white conferences with Negro members (i.e. in the North) could keep them. Behind closed doors Negro Bishop Robert E. Jones (Northern Methodist) of New Orleans made a valiant attempt to make an issue of Equal Rights. Negro President Willis J. King of Gammon Theological Seminary, who was reported to have been promised a bishopric, said nothing. Finally, in public, everyone sighed with relief when Bishop Jones arose, said that the segregation plan was acceptable to his people...