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...John R. Mott is retiring...
...first time in 54 years U.S. Protestantism will have to get along without the active help of its most famous organizer and greatest money-raiser. John R. Mott's resignation as chairman of the International Missionary Council became effective at once, and his place is being filled temporarily by liberal, mission-wise Methodist Bishop James Chamberlain Baker of Los Angeles...
...Emerson was right in saying that an institution is but the lengthened shadow of one man. Dr. Mott has cast his shadow in all directions. In 1886, while still a Cornell undergraduate, he helped build the Student Volunteer Movement. In 1895 he sparked the World's Student Christian Federation proclaiming "the evangelization of the world in this generation." He inspired the Laymen's Missionary Movement which spurred U.S. Protestants to increase their gifts for missions. At Edinburgh in 1910 he chairmaned the great interdenominational world conference, out of which evolved in 1920 the I.M.C., which he has headed...
...paying particular attention, that Supreme Court Associate Justice William Orville Douglas was the President's real defense choice; that he wanted to make Douglas Secretary of State, at the head of the War Cabinet-but feared public outcry. Last week the rumor was revived, and astute Sir Will-mott Lewis, veteran correspondent of the London Times, reported that Mr. Hull might be made Chief Justice, for the retirement of Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes in June has been rumored persistently...
...first Pulitzer Prize winner published by the University Press in 1938 was the "History of American Magazines" by Frank Luther Mott...