Word: marked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...atmosphere of penurious righteousness last week permeated Manhattan's old Church of St. Mark's in-the-Bouwerie. There was no more dancing, for the Bishop was returning and soon there would be confirmations and visitations...
When Dr. William Norman Guthrie came to St. Mark's in-the-Bouwerie in 1910, he found it a quiet old place, preached many a Sunday sermon to a congregation of some 25 people, most of them old ladies. He soon changed that by inviting Parsees, Chinese, Persians to conduct their rituals in St. Mark's in-the-Bouwerie. The Protestant Episcopal Diocese of New York began to twitter. In 1923 there was a famed dance service, celebrating the feast of St. Nicholas, which was erroneously reported in the Press as a "bare-leg, bare-hip affair." Actually...
Last December, St. Mark's in-the-Bouwerie went into involuntary orthodoxy. The church rents and investments had gone down in the Depression, leaving no more money for pageantry. This, by a curious bit of ecclesiastical weaseling. healed the breach last week between Bishop Manning and Dr. Guthrie...
Flight From the Mark...
...This weakness in the German situation manifested itself in the Spring of 1929, when fear of the failure of the Young Plan negotiations created a flight from the mark; again, in the Fall of 1930, when the results of the elections caused another flight, and, finally, in the Summer of 1931, when even the moratorium failed to avert an acute financial arises which paralyzed German business. Certainly the inability of Germany to develop a large export surplus must be regarded as a major factor in precipitating the depression in 1929 and in intensifying the depression in the Fall...