Word: jason
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with coconut oil in which some particles of coconut meat may be seen and then knots her hair up out of her way and washes any clothes she may desire to clean. Then in her wet clothing she goes home for dry, and to comb and dry her hair. JASON M. WALLING...
...Jason Noble Pierce, minister of the First Congregational Church in Washington, D. C., where Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge attend, where falling plaster once knocked a woman near the President's pew unconscious (TIME, June 21), last week told the Kiwanis Club in Stamford, Conn., that: "Probably four out of five of those who attend the services are not my people but come to the church just to see the President. The fact that we had to extend the seating capacity of the church does not signify a growth in spirituality, but rather an increase in curiosity...
Standing in a dense crowd at Lafayette Mall on the Common, Boston, an untidy-looking man with a bundle of magazines under his arm put a 50¢ piece between his teeth, bit it hard and grinned. In front of him stood a preacherman whom some recognized as Rev. Jason Franklin Chase, Secretary of the New England Watch and Ward Society, guardian of Boston morals. Nearby waited a distinguished gentleman whom some recognized as Arthur Garfield Hays, lawyer, defender of John Scopes, of the Countess Cathcart. And everybody stared unfavorably at the untidy man with the magazines. He had just committed...
...Jason Franklin Chase, an ordained Methodist preacher, has ever been concerned with the problems of social reform. He was appointed four times delegate to the International Purity Federation by President Wilson, instigated the fight against "dope traffic" in Boston and has been active in the "white slave" movement...
Died. William Madison Wood, 68, famed founder and retired President of the American Woolen Co., world's largest textile concern, son of a Portugese sea cook named Jacintho (who later took the name William Jason Wood), at Daytona Beach, Fla., by shooting himself through the mouth. He had long had ill health...