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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Riverside Church, a place of worship for "all the disciples of Jesus," which he built for $4,000,000 and in which he installed Rev. Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick. No less monumental was the Laymen's Foreign Missions Inquiry, to which Mr. Rockefeller was the largest contributor (TIME, Oct. 17, 1932 et seq.). That this survey, which found great need of interdenominational cooperation in foreign missions, was received "unenthusiastically" by the Northern Baptist Convention, its onetime President Charles Oscar Johnson was quick to recall last week in St. Louis. Added he: "If Mr. Rockefeller can get along without...
...Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House this week Rev. Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman was to hold a great meeting featuring the Hon. Carl J. Hambro, president of the Norwegian Parliament, and other members of the international team of Oxford Groupers who lately worked in Switzerland (TIME, Oct. 14 et ante). And last week Groupers told the Press about one of their most spectacular conversions to date. A textile manufacturer of Rotterdam named Dr. Roessingh, said they, lost his fortune when England went off the gold standard. Turning his talents to invention, he produced an incendiary bomb which military experts...
...flourishing Twentieth Century Pictures with huge, debt-laden Fox Film, Hollywood had its doubts as to what the result would be. Would Zanuck, struggling to prop up the sagging bulk, suffocate beneath it? Or would he bring it back to life? Last week, with one picture (Metropolitan) released (TIME, Oct. 28), Producer Zanuck showed three more products of his peculiar art. Hollywood scanned them for answers to its questions. The pictures...
Marriage Revealed. Daniel Michael ("Danno") O'Mahoney, 23, of Ballydehob, Ireland, world's heavyweight wrestling champion on furlough from the Irish Free State Army (TIME, Aug. 12); and Nurse Julia Esther Burke, 27, of Cambridge, Mass.; in Cambridge, Oct...
...Detroit Tigers; of a heart attack at the Detroit Riding & Hunt Club. For $700 he bought the great Tyrus Raymond Cobb in 1905; last year he paid $100,000 for Gordon Stanley ("Mickey") Cochrane, manager of the team which won its first World Series last month (TIME, Oct...