Word: ministere
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Grim Plutarco Elias Calles, Minister of War, sat in the public dining room of a hotel at Torreon, Mexico, last week, methodically chewing. Generals and businessmen leaned over the table, talking excitedly. General Calles, scowling, continued to eat.
A report of this courtly prelude to battle was forwarded to Minister of War Calles, and the battle was on, horse, foot and artillery.
"Be bold! Be bold!" was a favorite Occidental maxim of the late, sainted Dr. Sun Yat-sen (TIME, March 23, 1925), founder of China's present Nationalist Government. Nearly always the tail end of the maxim (". . . but not too bold!") was docked in quotation by dynamic, heroic Sun Yatsen...
So ran a letter received lately by many a minister in the East. One minister, an Episcopalian, at once sat down and wrote indignantly to The Churchman (liberal weekly): "This sort of thing is an insult to the ministry." Editorialized The Churchman: "We agree."
Died. Dr. John Knox Allen, 84, of Tarrytown, N. Y., for 50 years minister of the First Reformed Church of Tarrytown, famed as the church near which the Headless Horseman gave horrific chase to Ichabod Crane in Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow; of paralysis; in Tarrytown...