Word: john
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Edward Henry Harriman Simmons, broker. President New York Stock Exchange, and a Mrs. John Mayer; in Manhattan. He is her third husband, she is his second wife. Sued for Divorce. Bainbridge Colby, Wilsonian Secretary of State (1920-21), and law partner; by Nathalie Sedgwick Colby, novelist, at Reno. Grounds: desertion...
Divorced. William A. Rockefeller, grandnephew of John Davison Rockefeller; by Mrs. Florence Lincoln Rockefeller, his childhood playmate; at Bridgeport, Conn. Said she: ''My husband became addicted to strong drink. He gradually slipped...
...gloomy, chill St. Gile's Cathedral at Edinburgh wherein John Knox had often flayed that Mary who was Queen of Scots, Rev. Henry Sloane Coffin, president of the Union Theological Seminary of New York, last week told 6,000 Scots that Christendom is doomed...
...years, had shown their willingness to work toward the "earth-wide fellowship" mentioned by Dr. Coffin. The event had been the reunion of the long separated Established Church (Auld Kirk) and the United Free Church, both of which originated in the stern predestinationism brought to Scotland by John Knox from Geneva's John Calvin...
...first assembly of the reunited Church of Scotland was held in a garage containing some 12,000 chairs. While rain beat upon the roof the position of moderator of the reunited church was voted to Rev. John White, minister of the Barony of Glasgow...