Word: moneys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Clouds over Europe (Columbia) is no international storm warning, but the most enjoyable leg-pulling in a coon's age on such favorite cinema standbys as spies, secret war gadgets and Scotland Yard. Made in England with Hollywood money to satisfy the Buy-British quota laws, Clouds over Europe 1) elbow-digs at British stuffocracy sufficiently to get a nod from most Anglophobes; 2) contains the sort of British acting calculated to warm an Anglophile's heart; and 3) has enough thrill, pace and lovestuff to stay on the top side of any U. S. double bill...
Declaring that only 30% of U. S. and Canadian Protestants give money to foreign missions, Dr. Mott said that the whole missionary system is "overworked and undermanned." A 15% increase in staff, he declared, would bring a 100% increase in results. But if missionary zeal is dull at home, Dr. Mott thought that it was keen in the field. Said he: "If Christianity should die out in Europe and America, it exists in such vitality and propagating power in the younger churches of India, China, Japan and Africa, that sooner or later it would spread from those bases...
...engagement, in Tyrone, Pa., 21 years ago. Fred, 18, was then in Penn State, studying architecture and engineering. His younger brother Tom and the boy next door, a dark, antic trap-drummer named Poley McClintock, had a two-piece piano & drums outfit that used to pick up occasional pin money playing for Victory dances, etc. They invited Fred, a violinist who preferred the banjo to join in. Another banjoist, Fred Buck, joined too. Four-strong, they barnstormed Pennsylvania's busy mining district, picked up a sax player or so, a trumpeter, a trombonist, soon had ten players. Soon...
...intellectual distinction for the University. Its best known product: Psychologist Joseph Banks Rhine's experiments on ESP ("extra-sensory perception"-clairvoyance and telepathy). Of his faith in these, President Few says: "I'm backin' him, ain't I?" Dr. Few believes Duke needs much more money, wishes it were as rich as Harvard. Old Dr. Few just now is irked by New Deal public power projects and taxes, which threaten the income from the Duke endowment, largely invested in the Duke North Carolina power companies. To critics like Abraham Flexner, who characterized activities of the Duke...
Shrewd old Buck Duke saw to it that his University should remain Dukensian even after his death. Not only did he forbid the University to sell its Duke power stocks, but he directed Duke Endowment trustees (mostly officers in the Duke companies) to withdraw his money from the University Whenever it ceased to be operated "in a manner calculated to achieve the results intended hereby...