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Married. Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 65, famed politician and stock gambler, a widower since 1928; to a Mrs. Helen Hawley McCallum, 45, Manhattan widow; at Christ Church, Mayfair, London...
Just a month ago John Emmett Edgerton, president of the National Association of Manufacturers,* addressed the third quadrennial Conference on the Economic Order, conducted at Evanston, Ill. by the Methodist Federation for Social Service. The general subject was "The Layman and the Economic Order."† The religious as well as the daily Press paid little attention to the meeting. It seemed purely a Methodist talk fest. Last fortnight, however. The Nation discovered a paragraph in Mr. Edgerton's paper which Methodist publications seem to have ignored...
...Important members of the N. A. M.: General Electric Co., International Harvester Co., Packard Motor Car Co. Mr. Edgerton is also president of the Lebanon (Tenn.) Woolen Mills, trustee of Vanderbilt University, trustee of Martin College (Pulaski, Tenn.), a Democrat, a Kiwanian, a Rotarian, a Southern Methodist...
...Bournemouth, 107 miles away: church union in India. The handicap of Christian missionaries in India as well as elsewhere is that the heathen cannot understand the competition between Christian denominations. In India there are now a South India United Church (formed by Congregational, Presbyterian and Reformed converts), a Wesleyan Methodist Church of South India, an Anglican (Episcopalian) Church of India, Burma & Ceylon. The hope of these three Christian churches in India merging soon is good, because their vested interests are neither old nor extensive, because they are forced to a friendliness by their isolation in the vast prairies of Hinduism...
Director Woodcock was ready to move into his new offices on the fifth floor of the Southern Railway building (Commissioner Doran was two floors below him). Aged 46, bachelor, Methodist, Lieutenant Colonel in the A. E. F. with a reputation as a hard drill master, able lawyer, Director Woodcock had served eight years as U. S. District Attorney at Baltimore. His home is at Salisbury on Maryland's "Eastern Shore." Tall and thin with sharp aggressive features, he believes in Prohibition with all his heart. He was at first reluctant to take this new post, but when...