Word: locales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Episcopal Church. Aggregate membership of this big bundle: about 4,500,000. The Assembly formally invited the Southern Church, split off by slavery in 1861, to rejoin it. It approved a concordat, drawn up last year by Presbyterian and Episcopal commissions, for cooperation between the two churches, beginning in local congregations (TIME, Feb. 6). As Moderator of the Presbyterian Church the Assembly elected a man from the foreign mission field, where the urge toward church unity is strongest. Dr. Sam Higginbottom, third layman to head the Church, is president of India's Allahabad Christian College, and rated the ablest...
...Early in May, in a recorded broadcast, President Roosevelt reminded listeners to 150 U. S local stations: "Aside from some financial as sistance, in the form of less-than-cost posta rates, the Government has supported the press chiefly by protecting its freedom...
...amount of cultural fuss it begets, music is unequalled among the arts. There are in the U. S. no less than 4,900 local music clubs, with a total of 500,000 lady members ready to defend the diatonic scale as they would defend their young. Last week 5,000 of them, smartly dressed and a little less bosomy than D. A. R. ladies, wound up in Baltimore the 21st biennial convention of the National Federation of Music Clubs, moved on to New York City for two days at the World's Fair...
...year before last at 73. In 1884 he landed in New York from a freighter and headed west. For three years he rode the range in the Dakotas and Iowa, then covered the trial of a brewer for the murder of a Methodist temperance leader who had put over local option in Sioux City. That got him back into the newspaper business and he moved on to the St. Paul Globe and then the Minneapolis Journal, which paid him $30 a week to be sports editor and cover special events such as the last war with the Indians...
...insure loans to small business, FHA style, "to put the small man who cannot finance internally on a par with large corporations." 3) To appoint a special subcommittee, reporting to Congress, on the feasibility of organizing capital credit banks to make capital available alike to government (Federal & local) and to private enterprise. "No panacea," Berle pontificated, "with these three bills we should have the elements for a modern financial toolkit...