Word: homeness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Britain does not intend to abandon her duties; despite the unthankful character of her job. We will continue the difficult task of maintaining order and upholding the national Jewish home in Palestine...
Heart of the home...
...potent soul-saving organizations came into conflict last week. Battling for souls on its home ground was Wilbur Glenn Voliva's Christian Catholic Apostolic Church of Zion City, Ill. The invading soul-hunter was Aimee Semple McPherson's Four-Square Church from California, represented by Sister Essie Locy, "Trumpeting Evangelist," who set up headquarters in Waukegan, North of Chicago and just south of Zion City...
Other methods used by Sister Locy were generally a la McPherson. Arriving, she announced: "We have unfurled the Four-Square banner in Waukegan in answer to Mr. Voliva's rule of injustice and tyranny and to provide a church home for those who are disgusted with Voliva's tactics." Then hiring a theatre she held lusty revival meetings, playing hymns on her silver trumpet. As an additional lure she stated these meetings were exact duplicates of those Sister McPherson was holding in the Angelus Temple at Los Angeles. At the end of each session Sister Locy called upon...
...trans-Atlantic telephone call. Speaking from Paris was William F. Kenny, self-made millionaire (contracting utilities), longtime friend of Alfred Emanuel Smith. Explained Mr. Kenny: "I haven't been able to get a decent haircut and I want to look presentable when I get back home." Customer Kenny (almost bald) instructed Barber Arico to sail on the Leviathan, attend him in London with shears, clippers.* Estimators estimated that Mr. Kenny's haircut would cost him some $2,000 ? more than $1 per hair for what he has left...