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When people speak of the other Senator from New York, they are usually referring to a doctor with a flower in his buttonhole, Royal S. Copeland, writer of syndicated articles on health published on the newsless pages of newspapers. Among other things, he is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, a trustee of Syracuse University, a teetotaler. Last week he announced: "I am ready to burn all my bridges behind me in order to carry out the will of the people of this State" for a modification of the Volstead Act. Said he: "I do not think that...
...bottomed little island upon which whole new cities have been superimposed annually for a decade. The Chicago press, after months of extravagant paeans about Chicago's towering new hotels, newspaper cathedrals and dizzy spires for housing jewelers, oil men, furniture merchants, athletes, chicle-venders, and to support a Methodist cross, had not yet quieted down sufficiently to overhear the murmurs of reaction. But such murmurs there were, even in Chicago. Three universities had in the past year embarked upon skyscrapers of learning-at Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and Chicago. Detroit was contemplating the advent of an 85-story prodigy, complete with...
...Thanksgiving Day. In the morning, the President read his newspapers, scanned his mail. Before noon the calm grew more profound, for the President and Mrs. Coolidge together with Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Stearns of Boston and Attorney General John Garibaldi Sargent had departed for worship at the Metropolitan Methodist Episcopal Church,* where Bishop William F. McDowell preached. Upon their return, the five lunched lightly. Then the President napped while the rest of the party went to see Ethel Barrymore in The Constant Wife. At 7 p. m., what with a 24-pound turkey, the gift of Governor...
...Methodists convened at Manhattan were less calm, more specific, about a similar situation in their own Asiatic mission field. Speaking before the Men's Methodist Council, Religious Dean Edmund D. Soper, Duke University, waxed satirical, pessimistic. Said he: "China, Japan, India wonder why we who would teach them have slaughtered each other in thousands, why we refuse to hold all races equal in our countries, why we will not hear both sides of questions. . . . We ask ourselves what is next, and we have no next. We have shot our bolt...
...recently at a luncheon held in a San Francisco convent, to Protestant and Jewish leaders of the city, on behalf of the city's Community Chest. Prominent religious leaders present included Rabbi Jacob Nieto, Bishop Edward L. Parsons of the Episcopal Church, Bishop Charles Wesley Burns of the Methodist Church and Chester Rowell, California progressive, former publisher of the Fresno (Calif.) Republican, all of whom spoke...