Word: northern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Beginning this week, Preacher Whitelock planned to pack his wife and belongings in what he calls "the Chassis Church," take to the road for good. After a tour of northern New England the Whitelocks will head for the paradise of trailer folk, Florida. There they will put to full use a technique which has earned them some fame broadcasting as "Uncle Herb and Aunt Ede" over small New England radio stations. Brisk, 50-year-old Uncle Herb preaches the gospel to crowds attracted by Aunt Ede's singing, to her own accompaniment. Says...
...peculiar system of newsgathering he uses, here depending on what he sees and knows, here taking in the stories of rural raconteurs, rarely bothering with actual substantiation of what he says--now poeticizing the life of degenerate redskins at the Tonawanda Reservation, of two-fisted lumbermen in the northern mountains, of New York State Police; now ridiculing Chautauqua, poking fun at civic spirit in Rochester. He writes vividly, sometimes beautifully, always imaginatively. He does not, however, do, York State the service it deserves...
...Chang replied that, while it would be premature for China to grant such rights to Japan in all Chinese provinces, the Chinese Government would permit Japanese military co-operation in assisting it to exterminate Communism and banditry in the Chinese provinces of Manchuria, Jehol, East Hopei and Northern Chahar. The point of this uproarious Chinese joke could not entirely escape even glum Japanese Ambassador Shigeru Kawagoe upon whom it was sprung with the utmost Chinese decorum-for Mr. Kawagoe well knows that the areas specified are precisely those which Japanese soldiers already dominate and have detached or are trying...
...solid wheat dealer of northern France, Artist Matisse dutifully began life as a lawyer's apprentice, was forced to give up his law studies when a severe attack of appendicitis left him an invalid for many months. Painting was suggested to help his convalescence and he liked it so well that he never opened a law book again...
...bishop, to the North American College in Rome in 1909. Ordained in the St. John Lateran Basilica in 1914, he returned to St. Joseph, rose quickly in the shadow of its Cathedral. Monsignor Buddy sits on the municipal Board of Health, aids in Community Chest campaigns, founded northern Missouri's first Negro Catholic church, an Information Forum for people of all creeds, a riverfront shelter and cafeteria which the Government took over in 1934 as a transient relief bureau. In the shelter, whose motto was "We never ask questions," Monsignor Buddy did such good deeds as buying haircuts...