Word: newtons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...face of these stark facts that some 200 civic leaders and social workers gathered in Washington last week to launch the Fourth Mobilization for Human Needs, super-campaign of propaganda for all private charities. At its head, as he had been under President Hoover, was able, eloquent Newton Diehl Baker of Cleveland, Wartime Secretary of War. The mobilizers gathered first on the White House lawn for a greeting from the President. His job was difficult: to steer the sentiment of the country back to the Hoover philosophy of voluntary giving while continuing the Roosevelt practice of direct relief based...
Legend: Aboard the Hussar was $4,000,000 in gold destined for British troops. (A U. S. correspondent, searching through admiralty and treasury files in London, found no record of lost gold. Yet an historian of Manhattan Island-Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes-reports that the Hussar's rudder was recovered in 1811, that attempts to recover the treasure were made in 1818 and 1824, that some gold was actually brought up in 1856 by Worcester Hussar...
That was precisely what Rev. Dwight Jacques Bradley of Newton, Mass, was making ready to do last week. Four years ago he went to Boston's smart, pleasant suburb to be pastor of. First Church, Congregationalist, which in 265 years has had only twelve pastors. First Church has 1,013 well-fed worshippers. Next month Dr. Bradley is leaving it to take charge of Union Church in Boston's down-at-heel South End, on the wrong side of the New York, New Haven & Hartford tracks...
...Graham Guthrie (now of Chicago) and the late Rev. Dr. Nehemiah Boynton, Union Church has but 389 enrolled members. Surrounded by lodging houses, it draws polyglot congregations; one Sunday School class is in Chinese. Calling it "a strategic city situation," Dr. Bradley plans to bring in students from Andover Newton Theological School where he will be professor of Applied Christianity this year. Said he to a Christian Century correspondent...
John H. Gleason '30, 2G, of Newton, Mass., assistant in History--Wigglesworth hall...