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...troops under General Ku are the famed "Chiang's Own," smartly drilled by Germans, far better equipped than any other Chinese force, strictly brought up in the Christian virtues for years by the Methodist Generalissimo. That these soldiers might be morally too good was a fear to which their General Ku gave discreet expression last week. "If you observe the people of Sian and its province of Shensi smoking opium, ignore it for the present," he ordered, just before his troops finally entered Sian this week, apparently unresisted. "Hold your peace. We wish to forget that this Sian. trouble...
...first, William Capers (1790-1855), was a Methodist bishop. His son, Ellison Capers (1837-1908), Confederate brigadier, was an Episcopal bishop, as is his son, William Theodo tus Capers (1867-), bishop of West Texas since...
Familiar to most U. S. blasphemers is the ballad about the Biblical football game played on Christmas Day in St. Peter's old back yard. Last week before an eminently respectable audience-a father-&-son dinner in Brandywine Methodist Episcopal Church, Wilmington, Del.- Football Coach Harvey John Harmanof the University of Pennsylvania picked a Biblical football team he would have liked to coach. The lineup...
Several times you have mentioned Wellesley College as the educational institution attended by Mme Chiang Kaishek. Two of the Misses Soong attended Wesleyan College, in Macon, Ga. Is it possible these two colleges have been confused? The latter is a Methodist institution and the oldest chartered women's college in the world. What...
...Washington Post on the topic: "Do Newspapers Do More Harm Than Good?" Said Brother Christopher, arguing the affirmative: "Felix is a diplomat of the status quo- he comes before you as a Talleyrand; I, shrinking in my intellectual exposure, will be a Sally Rand." Cornered at a Methodist Bishop's Council in New Orleans, famed Prohibition-crusading Bishop James Cannon Jr., 72, admitted he had tasted liquor for the first time when his doctor last fortnight prescribed 30-drop doses of wine. "But I still don't like it," he snapped, declaring Prohibition would return...