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...looks like a Roman Catholic priest after Hollywood's heart-from the man-to-man no-nonsense of his manner to the gentle, Celtic cadence of his speech. But South-Ireland-born Chaplain A. Hamilton Nesbitt of New York City's Police Department is a solid Methodist. Like many another Protestant churchman, Chaplain Nesbitt had long looked with Christian envy upon the way the Catholics get their people together. Why shouldn't Protestants use the same methods...
With his 4,000-odd Protestant minority on the police force, perennially suspicious ,that their 13,500 Catholic colleagues were getting the breaks in salaries and promotions, Chaplain Nesbitt had something to work with. For his model he took the Catholics' 130-year-old Holy Name Society, which maintains a chapter in every U.S. parish and has enrolled most of New York's Catholic cops. In 1937 Chaplain Nesbitt gathered a nucleus of 500 Protestant policemen in the line-up room and put it up to them. That evening the St. George Association was born...
American's grey-haired, heavy-set president, Alexander Nesbitt Kemp is well aware that his company's action signifies more than ambitious appetite. Two months ago, American and 15 other domestic lines trumpeted a policy of free postwar competition, signed an agreement to implement it. Pan American Airways and American Export Airlines, which now fly the North Atlantic, did not sign. Pan Am fears the results of a wholesale postwar competitive scramble among U.S. airlines while foreign countries operate through a government-backed "chosen instrument." Export has said nothing. American is the first of the big lines...
...United Presbyterian this week, H. S. Nesbitt, a missionary in distracted India, attacked Mahatma Gandhi-for worshiping cows...
Beth Gill, 17, of Nesbitt, De Soto County, Miss., who raised 2,077 fowl; sold 6,254 dozen eggs; canned 1,799 quarts; refinished 45 pieces of furniture; earned $3,839. She is a freshman at Mississippi State College for Women...