Word: lowther
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Good friends are Methodist Dr. Edgar Allan Lowther, who went to Temple in 1931 from a pastorate in Oakland, Calif., and Congregationalist Dr. Jason Noble Pierce, who used to be Calvin Coolidge's pastor in Washington, and was brought to San Francisco in 1933 by a potent Californian, onetime Secretary of the Navy Curtis Dwight Wilbur. Methodist Lowther is tall, hawk-faced, spare, a liberal and a pacifist. Congregationalist Pierce is plump, jolly, a Wartime chaplain (see col. 2), American Legionary and 100% Republican. While Dr. Lowther was struggling to make a go of his hotel-church. Dr. Pierce...
...Hugh Cecil Lowther, Lord Lonsdale, 74, of the elaborate sideburns, impeccable tailcoats, long black cigar and big buttonhole flowers, announced last week that his financial condition "has become one of considerable difficulty." What with taxes, farm problems and an accident in one of his Cumberland mines which reduced that part of his income from $600,000 to $10,000 yearly, his Lordship said he must lease the shooting at Lowther Castle. Worse, he must sell nearly all his racehorses, for a generation among Britain's finest. Also last week, the Marchioness Curzon of Kedleston (grave Elvina Hinds of Alabama...