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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Dr. Ernest Gladstone Richardson, new Methodist Bishop of New Jersey, appointed new pastors to 35 of the 37 "vacant" M. P. pulpits. He pronounced the experience "most trying." For on Sunday the 37 diehards, backed by their bristling flocks, took their stand for Methodist Protestantism, made ready to repel invaders. This they accomplished peacefully, however. In most of the churches, new pastors courteously claimed the pulpits, were courteously refused, departed quietly-or even remained to hear a diehard's sermon...
...Lutheran (in Alsace) and the Baptist, were reunited last year after a century of schism. Half of Général Boegner's 1,000 pastors have been mobilized, and 75 installed as chaplains. For French Protestantism, mobilization posed a problem: how to keep its churches running. M. Boegner solved it by recalling aged ministers from retirement, giving pulpit work to laymen and even to "some young ladies who have made profound studies in theology...
...vice-presidents' office sat a set of keen-eyed executives tempered by Chrysler: men like B. E. Hutchinson, Fred M. Zeder, Joe Fields. Their fingers were on the controls of every part of Chrysler Corp.'s complicated mechanism. And in the president's paneled office on the fifth floor of the Highland Park plant sat Kaufman Thuma Keller, the same "K. T." who had made the night foray on the Dodge plant eleven years...
Near Oklahoma City, Okla., a truck rolled downhill out of control, snapped off a pole bearing a high-voltage wire, which fell across a metal sign, which touched a barbed wire fence, which set fire to a patch of grass, on which Farmer R. M. W. Cody threw a pail of water, which splashed on the electrified fence, electrocuting Farmer Cody...
Wednesday the Varsity plays Tufts and Saturday M. I. T. in two League games...