Word: hudsons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Curly Top (Fox). Elizabeth Blair (Shirley Temple) and her sister Mary (Rochelle Hudson), inmates at the Lakeside Orphanage, so endear themselves to the richest member (John Boles) of the board of trustees that he decides to relieve the tedium of a summer at Southampton with his good-humored elderly aunt by adopting them. Little Elizabeth's diversions of frolicking about with her pony and duck, teasing the English butler, dancing and singing in amateur theatricals are thereafter interrupted only once. This is when her older sister and her guardian, being too inhibited to confess their love for each other...
...cleaners, barber and beauty shop equipment, electric refrigerators, oil burners and finally into the textile factoring business. But he was not averse to increasing his automobile business by acquisition of Henry Ford's financing company, Universal Credit Corp., in 1933. Today CIT finances the sale of Graham-Paige, Hudson, Nash, Reo, Pierce-Arrow, Studebaker and Ford...
Died. Gustav Lindenthal, 85, famed U. S. bridge builder; after long illness; in Metuchen, N. J. Builder of the Hell Gate. Manhattan and Queensboro Bridges, Austrian-born Engineer Lindenthal's fondest dream was never fulfilled: a giant span across the Hudson River at 57th Street, opposed by the War Department for reasons of wartime navigation. Also built by Engineer Lindenthal were Pennsylvania R. R.'s Hudson and East River tunnels...
...Hudson River, in a parish noted for the idiosyncrasy of its rector, there have lately been a number of baptisms. In each of these, at a certain point, the rector has taken the babies to be baptized, following the Prayer Book rubric: Then the minister shall take the child into his arms. ... At the end of the service, however, he has refused to return the baby to the parents...
...foregoing is the substance of a theological joke, appearing in last week's Living Church, Episcopal high church weekly. Explanation: The parish "up on the Hudson River "is Christ Church. Poughkeepsie, N. Y., whose rector. Dr. Alexander Griswold Cummins, is an energetic and articulate low churchman (TIME, Nov. 6, 1933 et ante). To insure against high church practices, the Christ Church parish board last month passed a by-law requiring the incumbent "to abstain from the use of any ornaments, forms, services, or ritual which are not definitely allowed by the rubrics of the Book of "Common Prayer...