Word: michaels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rumania's Crown Prince Michael...
...Petty, who came in 1926, shocked his flock by inviting Negroes and again, when 50 parishioners started to walk out on a sermon defending Al Smith, by directing the organist to follow their steps with Chopin's Funeral March. Dr. Petty was soon replaced by Dr. Michael Joseph Twomey who abruptly resigned last April, explaining: "God says I go." Tired of seeking another Conwell, the Temple last week decided to try something different-a Poling...
...cultured, well-to-do Wang family of Peiping named their daughter Ta-jun ("All Gracious"). When, aged 11 and just out of elementary school, the child was found to be dangerously tuberculous, they put her in the care of the Sisters of St. Michael's Hospital. Ta-jun quickly became interested in Catholicism, was baptized in 1929. She chose the name Marie for the Blessed Virgin, Thèrèse for the Little Flower of Lisieux, whose career she was to duplicate at many points. The 33 months pale, pretty Marie Thèrèse Wang...
Abram Hewitt's son, Peter Cooper Hewitt, inherited and brought to full fruition the inventive genius of his Grandfather Cooper. The late, great Michael Pupin marveled not only at the imaginative brilliance of his mind but also at his extraordinary physical grace, especially marked in the deftness of his hands. Rich and unorthodox in his methods, he invented the widely-used mercury vapor lamp, discovered the basic principle of the vacuum-tube amplifier, made many an other prime contribution to electricity and radio. He also pioneered in the development of hydro-airplanes, speedboats, aerial torpedoes, heliocopters. He died...
When his Contract Bridge Match for the "Championship of the World'' started in Manhattan last month Promoter Michael Strauss Jacobs proudly announced that, on its last evening, the event would be moved into Madison Square Garden, with 52 sandwich men impersonating a pack of cards so that 15,000 spectators could follow the play. True to his word, Promoter Jacobs last week moved the Four Aces, representing the U. S., and their French opponents, captained by Baron Robert de Nexon, into two cubicles at one end of the Garden. At the other end, on a huge platform, sandwich...