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Dates: during 1930-1939
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GEOGRAPHICAL: Your story leaves the impression there were only Hill Billies there, from the Smoky Mountains. That's like saying all aviators are from Kitty Hawk, N. C., for that same year the Church of God did inaugurate its return at Camp Creek, N. C., same year the Wrights first flew at the other end of the State. The Church of God is now firmly established with some 4,000 congregations in 44 States-22 foreign countries...
...tongues; they shall take up serpents" (Mark: 16:17, 18). To many a U. S. religionist of the Pentecostal or "Holy Roller" variety, the "gift of tongues" has long been vivid reality. In recent years the taking up of serpents has gained equal favor. Two years ago in Sylva, N. C. a rawboned mountaineer named Albert Teester let himself be bitten by a rattlesnake, became gravely ill, recovered (TIME, Aug. 20, 1934). Soon in Birmingham one female and three male Holy Rollers safely handled a rattler from which, it later was revealed, the fangs had been drawn at the behest...
Until recently, U. S. golfers made a habit of winning British championships as well as their own. This season, the situation has been reversed. Scot Jack McLean was a finalist in the U. S. Amateur at Garden City last month. Last week, at Summit, N. J., England's Pamela Barton was a finalist for the U. S. Women's Championship...
Last week's weirdest newspaper story was an Associated Press dispatch from the small town of Woodbridge, N. J., 24 miles from Manhattan. The A. P.'s 1,350 members were informed by wire that one Theresa Czinkota had been publicly accused of witchcraft by five of her neighbors in the town's Hungarian section. In rich detail the A. P. told how spying neighbors described to a Police Recorder what they had seen through the windows of Mrs. Czinkota's home...
...petition for voluntary bankruptcy contested in Atlantic City, N. J. by skeptical creditors (TIME, Sept. 7), onetime film Panjandrum William Fox, who claims he has to borrow cash to live on, explained: "As of Jan. 1, 1930, I was under the impression I was worth about $100,000,000. . . . But I found soon afterward I had estimated wrong...