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...youth, Rhee had attended the Pai Chai Methodist Mission school, and now the missionaries and their wives visited him in jail. There he became converted to Christianity. When the Japanese took over Korea in 1904, Rhee was released in a general amnesty and immediately went to the U.S. For six years he studied in American universities, got an M.A. from Harvard and a Ph.D. from Princeton. Back in Korea, while heading up a Korean Christian student movement, he began undercover agitation against the Japanese. When the conquerors got his number, he slipped off to Hawaii...
Vigilant Momma. In 1932, while attempting to put Korea's case before an indifferent League of Nations in Geneva, Rhee met Francesca Maria Barbara Donner, 34, the daughter of a family of Viennese iron merchants. Two years later they were married in a Methodist ceremony in New York. The Rhees live in a modest mansion on the rolling hillside behind Seoul, only 30 miles south of the front. In their household Madame Rhee maintains constant vigilance...
...observers even tried to deny that Congress has the right to investigate colleges or anything else it chooses. But several spectators, including Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, Unitarian Dr. A. Powell Davies and the Very Rev. Francis B. Sayre Jr., Dean of Washington Cathedral, cried "foul" at the tactics of the investigators. Despite the continuing uproar, Representative Harold H. Velde and his House Un-American Activities Committee went to work...
Both investigations were attacked by Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, member of the University Board of Preachers, as "jeopardizing out freedom and our faith...
Miss Brenda M. Pope, Administrative Assistant in the Personnel Office, died last Thursday after being hit by an automobile last Monday morning. Her funeral will be held at 2 p.m. today at the Belmont Methodist Church, Common St., Belmont. The Personnel Office will be closed at 1 p.m. today for the balance...