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Suits & Charges. But the board was still not out of trouble. After taking care of Insuranceman Becker, the jury accused Board Member J. Paul Elliott of misconduct for taking $4,400 in legal fees from the Landier interests. In the meantime, the parents of the child who was killed on a blacktopped playground brought suit against the board for $50,000. The parents of another child later killed the same way sued for $351,000. Finally, the grand jury made up its mind about the question of the telephone operators, declared that the board had "condoned" discrimination against "colored, Jewish...
...Christian ministry do the same? For Indiana's Methodist Bishop Richard C. Raines, the question had a special significance: the Methodist Church needs 1,200 new ministers a year, but it is currently getting only about 650. To help him do something about it, a hard-driving Indianapolis insuranceman named Edward F. Gallahue borrowed an idea or two from business salesmanship...
...Insuranceman Gallahue (American States Insurance Co.) laid out the campaign. Ministers in each of Indiana's 17 Methodist districts were asked to select one or more outstanding boys in their congregations who might be candidates for the ministry. Then, at a big get-together in Indianapolis, the boys were to be exposed to the arguments for devoting their lives to the church. Nothing high-pressure, though, said Bishop Raines-"We prepare the soil and plant the seed and then let God's sunshine do the work...
...Indianapolis' Broadway Methodist Church for further discussion and field trips. They were joined by teen-age girls who wanted to become missionaries, church secretaries, Sunday school teachers or social workers. In all, the experiment netted 350 who were interested enough in church vocations to ask for more information. Insuranceman Gallahue picked up the tab for the whole affair: about...
...each working day Wallace Stevens sits at a big, uncluttered desk in a comfortable office with a thick russet carpet. As vice president of the Hartford Accident and Indemnity Co., he spends his business hours dealing with fidelity and surety claims. Nobody would take 70-year-old Insuranceman Stevens for a poet, let alone the hard-to-read kind. But, after hours, Stevens is just that...