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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cowan. In 1934 Pastor Cowan held a meeting of a new, radical organization, the Fellowship of Southern Churchmen, later became its president. Thereupon 22 Chattanoogans seceded from Third Church. More left when Mr. Cowan helped organize labor unions, worked among sharecroppers, invited a Negro to a church dinner. Of late the chief listeners to Pastor Cowan's Sunday sermons have been newcomers and strangers in town...
Died. Sir Basil Home Thomson, 77, onetime Assistant Commissioner, Metropolitan Police (Scotland Yard), onetime bigwig in the British secret service; suddenly; in London. Sir Basil dearly loved to read & write detective stories, led an adventuresome life himself. Son of a late Archbishop of York, he was successively a rancher in Iowa, Prime Minister of Tonga (Friendly Islands), Governor of Great Britain's famed Dartmoor Prison. Highspot of his career; tracking down Mata Hari, whom he described as a dowdy, middle-aged woman devoid of charm...
...Professor Montet's mummy turns out to be the Biblical Shishak, † the find will be of more importance historically than the late Howard Carter's highly publicized discovery of Tutankhamen in 1922-since Tutankhamen was a footling little king who made no great impact on the affairs of his time...
...effacing tycoon who sprang this surprise was Walter Patton Murphy, a 66-year-old bachelor. A onetime railroad brakeman and fireman who became rich by inventing and manufacturing corrugated steel freight-car ends, Mr. Murphy heads three corporations (including Standard Railway Equipment Co.), owns the fabulous estate of the late William V. Kelley in Lake Bluff near Chicago, a cattle ranch in California, and a $1,000,000 square-rigged yacht. He is a good friend of James Roosevelt. Mr. Murphy is not so well known as his estate or his yacht, and the university had to look...
While her papa, Egypt's King Farouk, attended the exhumation of one of his royal predecessors, Princess Ferial (age four months) faced the world in her first picture. Egypt's adoring fellaheen fondly assured one another that the picture bore a strong resemblance to their late princess, Cleopatra...