Word: masses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...House are two other Congresswomen, elected to succeed their husbands: Florence P. Kahn of San Francisco, Calif., spouse of the late famed statesman Julius Kahn; Edith Nourse Rogers of Lowell, Mass., spouse of the late John Jacob Rogers, potent shoe manufacturer...
...group of English bishops (TIME, July 26, Aug. 9) for the settlement of the coal strike. Though the bishops proposal had the endorsement of the Miners' Federation Executive Committee, it was rejected last week by the miners 367,650 to 333,036. Rationally considered, this rejection displayed considerable mass common sense among the miners, for Premier Baldwin had already announced that the bishops proposal was not acceptable to the Government and consequently there existed no chance of putting it into effect. Shrewd Laborites deplored, however, the psychological effect of this rebuff to the potent and, in this instance, sympathetic...
...Church are dying in the agonies of hunger " It was a pretty pass. People, apparently, would rather hear some pinchbeck fellow gurgle a roulade than listen to the best constructed sermon. When, therefore, the guildsmen of prosperous towns began to give simple dramas, inspired by the magnificent theatricality of Mass, and evolved from Bible story, prelates everywhere came gradually to value their spiritual uses. Soon Herod was thumping his spear on the boards, and Judas went about his betraying in a long red beard, and Pilate could earn as much as ten shillings a week if he told his lines...
Secretly Married. John Hays Hammond Jr., 38 (smart son of a smart father), famed electrical inventor, to Mrs. Irene E. Felton Reynolds, divorced wife of a Gloucester, Mass., shoe dealer...
...Pittsfield, Mass., Stanley Andremewitz, 14, lay abed, slept serenely. Thunderheads crashed over the house; a bolt of lightning hurtled into a tree in the yard, shot over into Stanley's wall, flashed toward his very head, encountered a picture of Christ over the bed, smashed the glass, was deflected into the Andremewitz kitchen, doing Stanley no damage...