Word: luke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before the communion rail in St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Philadelphia's grimy Kensington industrial district last week knelt 80 out-of-work hosiery workers. They joined curly-haired Rector David Carl Colony in a prayer of thanksgiving. They listened to his sermon: "Remember . . . you have not arrived by yourselves but with the help...
...Colony-who had soldiered at 16 in Allenby's hell-for-leather army in Palestine, who had muttered against church pomposity and mustiness, who had been unhappy as curate of Philadelphia's swank Church of the Good Shepherd-was ready to deal with the problems of St. Luke's unemployed parishioners. He told them to go into business for themselves. That first group raised $11,000 and within a few months more Rector Colony, their president, had wangled a $15,000 RFC loan. A small vacant mill was bought, 13 ancient knitting machines were put in shape...
...past six months David Colony has also organized St. Luke's Towel Co. (80 stockholder-employes), whose entire output is taken by a New York jobber; Hulby Hosiery Corp. (33 employe-owners) and Colony-Sharp Carpet Co. (75 workers), in whose organization the Rev. William Sharp of nearby St. Paul's joined...
When an 88-pound meteorite thunked into Negro Farmer Dan Solomon's best field on the night of July 11, Dr. Luke Smith bustled out from nearby Chatham, bought it for $4. It was jet black and "smooth as velvet" on one side, heavily "thumb-marked" on the other. Soon he had a score of offers for it-$200 from the University of Toronto, lesser sums from the Smithsonian Institution, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Western Ontario in London. "Numerous private collectors have standing offers in for it," said Dr. Smith, "but only one man has come...
Between Brooklyn, N. Y. and Honolulu, Hawaii, lie some 5.500 miles of land and sea. All that Ben Fleigelmann of Brooklyn thought he had to do to make that trip was join the U. S. Army Air Corps and get assigned to Luke Field, Hawaii. In a high moment last November, Mechanic Fleigelmann decided to fly back 2,400 miles to San Francisco in a Douglas B18 bomber, which can fly 2,000 miles with a full load and the usual crew of six experienced men. Inasmuch as Private Fleigelmann was not even one experienced flier, he was lucky...