Word: m
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...M. E. Church, the M. E. Church. South, and the Methodist Protestant Church, aggregating 8,000,000 members, are to be united next April by a conference in Kansas City. Among other things the conference will decide on how best to merge seven boards all doing related tasks...
Tall, haughty and always immaculately dressed, wearing a white mustache and a wing collar, Benedict Cobb spent much of his time after his wife died in 1929 taking long daily walks with his nurse, Miss Miriam M. Caldwell, a vivacious Virginian. In a Pittsfield hotel last Thanksgiving Day, at 89, he died. In his will, announced last week, childless Benedict Cobb, last of his family, left $250,000 to his nurse, $450,000 to hospitals, a total of $1,340,000 in specific bequests. Yale got $400,000 of that and an estimated $1,400,000 in his residuary estate...
...Groves was not slow in making his presence felt. He acquired a handful of broken-down investment trusts, put them together as Equity Corp. and sold them to Rockefeller Son-in-Law David M. Milton at a profit of $750,000, according...
...mayor of Crosnes, a village near Paris, France, issued a decree forbidding the dogs of his commune to bark from 10 p. m. to 6 a. m...
...other members of the Harvard Faculty, besides Morison, have been chosen to serve on the committee dealing with the plan. They are Felix Frankfurter, Byrne Professor of Administrative Law, and Archibald M. MacLeish, Curator of the Nieman Journalism Collection. The committee in all consists of 18 historians, writors, and friends of the President...