Word: instead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Resigned. Dr. Ozora Stearns Davis, 62, of Chicago. Congregational Minister; as president of the Chicago Theological Seminary; as Moderator of the National Congregational Council. Reason: serious illness.* Dr. Carl Safiord Patton, homiletic and practical theology professor, was elected to succeed Dr. Davis to the presidency. But he declined, preferring instead the pastorate of Los Angeles' First Congregational Church, whereupon his 1,750 new parishioners assembled, cheered in unison, voted a new million-dollar church...
...next month of an 80-mile stretch of railroad which will link the coast-to-coast Guatemalan railroad with the coast-to-the-interior Salvador railroad. With the completion of this connecting link, the coffee planters of San Salvador will be given a direct rail line to the Atlantic. Instead of shipping coffee to the Pacific, then down to the Panama Canal, then through the canal to the Atlantic, coffee men can ship entirely by rail, can save from seven to 15 days in transportation to U. S. and European markets...
John David, New York chain store clothier, laid the cornerstone of gala headquarters last week, gave dress prophecies. He envisioned men bare-legged from ankle to knee, wearing roomy shorts instead of trousers, porous and mesh materials, vivid sandals, formal attire of silk or satin knee breeches, cutaway coat, colored waistcoat, buckled shoes...
...Referring to the Lucky Strike current slogan: "Reach for a Lucky instead of a Sweet...
...Greene never uses an alarm-clock. Instead she trains her companion to whisper, "I think perhaps you would like to waken now and get up." Once awake, Old Mrs. Greene feels too old, too weary, to arrange her own little walks, rests, games of "patience." She lets her companion arrange them. Dinner is the sacred hour; not then, not even afterward, can the companion express a personal opinion. Yet. the companion once breaks that rule. Although only 38, she says to Old Mrs. Greene, "I should like to die in the autumn." Startled, Mrs. Greene ponders the disparity of their...