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Such was one of the milder passages in a blistering, three-page letter received last week by owners of bonds of the Woman's Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Southern California Conference. Calling for united action, the letter was signed by William Coleman Bitting Jr., head of the St. Louis security house of Bitting...
...Louis, a warm friend of John D. Rockefeller Sr. Never an active churchman, rotund, convivial, energetic Son Bitting specializes in church and religious bonds. In 25 years he has floated $90,000,000 worth. To most of his clients he points with pride. But when he comes to the Methodist Episcopal Church, largest U. S. Protestant denomination, Bondman Bitting begins to splutter...
...eight outstanding Methodist Episcopal issues, totaling $5,000,000, are currently in default. The one which pains him most is that of the California Missionary Society. To help pay for a Methodist Hospital in Los Angeles, the Society in booming 1928 had Bitting & Co. float a $600,000 bond issue. In 1931 the Society paid off $55,000 of the principal, in 1933 made one interest payment. Not one other cent has it paid. By July 1, 1934 it had defaulted $67,000 principal, $59,950 interest...
...smile. Now an annoyed frown is usually to be seen behind his pince nez. His lack of humor makes him a perennial target for opposition wags. No one questions his sincerity and within his own ranks he is respected for his devotion to his party. He is a devout Methodist, a 33rd Degree Mason, and the author of fresh-water textbooks on history, physiology, politics, civics. Outside Congress: His wife, Eva C. Thomas, died in 1925. By her he had three sons. One, Lehr, was House parliamentarian under Speaker Longworth. In Washington Senator Fess lives alone at the exclusive Carlton...
...tall, lean minister sat in a Manhattan church one night last week, weeping gently into a handkerchief and bowing his bald head over a bouquet of yellow roses. What moved Dr. Christian Fichthorne Reisner to tears was the presence of 1,200 pious people in his Broadway Temple (Methodist) to celebrate the beginning of the 25th year of his work in the Manhattan corner of the Lord's vineyard. For three and one-half hours they listened to songs and praiseful speeches by churchmen, municipal officials, businessmen, Kiwanians. Said New York's District Attorney William C. Dodge...