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...heart-reunion of 8,000,000 U. S. Methodists into one great church. In less than three years, Northern Methodists, Methodist Protestants and six out of seven Southern Methodist conferences had approved a plan of union drawn by a commission mission of which Bishop Ainsworth was a member (TIME, Aug. 25, 1935). Ailing at 66, contemplating retirement. Bishop Ainsworth urged Southern laymen to give their final, necessary approval to the merger. He also issued a sharp statement...
A.N.P.A.'s committee on the subject noted only one development in the past year to which it could point with pride: a Supreme Court decision which gave Alma Lovell, a member of Jehovah's Witnesses, and all other freeborn Americans the right to distribute leaflets without first getting a permit (TIME, April 11). And actually it was the American Civil Liberties Union and the Workers Defense League, rather than the A.N.P.A., who had aided Mrs. Lovell. But the Committee on Freedom of the Press, headed by Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick, publisher of the Chicago Tribune, was willing...
Reporting of the fact that Supreme Court Justice Hugo La Fayette Black was once a member of the Ku Klux Klan won Raymond Sprigle of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette...
...officially listed a Progressive, member of the House Committee on Interstate & Foreign Commerce, he is the father of a resolution to investigate the automotive industry. This was inspired in March 1937 by the predominantly Progressive Wisconsin Legislature, as a result of a State licensing law for automobile dealers which brought out the fact that certain features of the dealer business were interstate in character and therefore outside State regulation. Gardner Withrow's proposal was that the Federal Trade Commission investigate monopolistic features of the relations between automobile manufacturers and dealers. Congress passed the resolution last month and Franklin Roosevelt...
Then he was trapped, for the Exchange suddenly decided to require financial statements from all its member firms (as a firm having no margin accounts Richard Whitney & Co. had always avoided this). Dick Whitney tried to bluff his way through by submitting fake figures, but the Exchange sent accountants to his office. This time, Brother George was in Florida, so Dick ran to Morgan-Partner Bartow with the whole miserable tale and a request for $280,000 more. Banker Bartow went to Lawyer John W. Davis, who forbade any financial assistance as improper. Bartow then motored out to Long Island...