Word: general
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with Bingo, while in Rome they reverently close the eyes of the 'Pope of Peace.' ... [I] quoted what was said . . . BEFORE the election of the new Pontiff. The reflection was not on the new Pope, beloved by all, but on the Catholic churches of Rochester in general, and upon St. Margaret Mary's in particular, who bingoed while the world wept...
Baptists throughout the world, apprised of the plight of their Rumanian coreligionists, raised a mighty squawk. Dr. James Henry Rushbrooke, general secretary of the Baptist World Alliance, went to Bucharest to see King Carol. When the King visited London last November, British Baptists and other Protestants sat on his doorstep until they were permitted to tell their story to the Rumanian Foreign Minister. Last February, Baptists devoted a "Day of Prayer" throughout the world to the Rumanian situation. Patriarch Cristea, fairly promptly, died (TIME, March...
...conscious Packard ("Ask the Man Who Owns One") likes to picture in advertisements of its expensive automobiles. A perfect piece of type casting for the days when Packard catered exclusively to the carriage trade, Alvan Macauley last week stepped up to the board chairmanship. His successor: Vice President and General Manager Max M. Gilman...
...Durstine, who began as general manager of BBD&O, became president in 1936. But there was no little guessing that he was difficult to work with, and advertising profits in the 1930s were not so great as they had been in the salad days of Barton, Durstine & Osborn. Last week Roy Durstine suddenly resigned, giving no reason. Bruce Barton became president and William H. Johns, head of the Batten firm when it merged, was made chairman of the BBD&O board. What adman Durstine would do next was admen's gossip last week...
...least of her trials was her pious, domineering husband, Dr. John Burrus Fearn, head of the Men's Hospital at Soochow, later head of the Shanghai General Hospital. When she married him, three years after her arrival in China, she was compelled to read five chapters of the Bible each morning, ten on Sundays, while her hospital routine waited, slowed, stalled. She stood it until one morning the Bible-reading held up a Caesarean, whereupon she slammed the Bible on the floor, crying "I can't bear it! I wish I'd never seen the damned thing...