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...launched as an active pulpiteer by Dr. Joseph Fort Newton, who in 1917 made her his assistant at London's City Temple, "Cathedral of British Nonconformity." With Canon Percy Dearmer she founded fellowship services at Kensington Town Hall, then set up as an independent minister at Guild-house in London's Eccleston Square. Possessor of an intellect vastly superior to any Aimee Semple McPherson (see below), Preacher Royden nevertheless employed a modicum of showmanship in uniforming her attendants and herself in berets, trim dark gowns. Plain, somewhat masculine in manner, far from robust since she was born with...
...gathering at Columbus was the second for the House of Delegates, the first since its organization at Boston last summer (TIME, Sept. 7). Chosen by State and local bar associations, attending legalists hailed the representative nature of the new body, paid no attention to the newly formed National Lawyers Guild...
...with U. S. legalists. At Mr. Broun's were gathered a group of liberal-thinking newshawks, and, with them, Mr. Broun's friend, bright-eyed little Lawyer Morris Leopold Ernst. Hatched at this and subsequent meetings was what has since grown to be the American Newspaper Guild. Lawyer Ernst had a lot of ideas about the newshawks' union, became its lawyer, drafted its constitution...
Germinating in Mr. Ernst's mind the past three years has been another idea: a guild for lawyers that would give them a freedom for liberal thought and action not provided by the A. B. A. and its House of Delegates. Last autumn Mr. Ernst and some friends wrote a terse 500-word "Appeal to American Lawyers" which pulled no punches, sent it far & wide to U. S. legalists over the name of Frank Patrick Walsh, onetime member of the War Labor Conference Board, now a Manhattan attorney, who agreed to act as Guild president in its organizational stages...
...Education John Ward Studebaker urged them to support a proposed $98,000 budget for the new U. S. Department of Music & Fine Arts. The teachers managed to agree, and raised $1,100. They showed less agreement but much more emotion when Leo Fischer, executive secretary of the American Guild of Musical Artists, appealed for the Dickstein Bill which aims to limit foreign competition with U. S. artists...