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Doubting Pauls have been unable to comprehend that Re-Thinking Missions, published last winter by the Rockefeller-sponsored Laymen's Foreign Missions Inquiry, gave a true picture of Christianity's status in the Orient. To confirm that picture, the Inquiry last week supplied them with Volume V of its source books-a combined volume of facts on Baptist, Congregational, Dutch Reformed, Episcopalian, Methodist and Presbyterian missions in China...
...great Manhattan law firm of Cravath. de Gersdorff. Swaine & Wood, he set up an independent practice in the Philippines, bought and operated the Manila Times, was retained by many a U. S. firm, did much business in China. His special knowledge of silver and the monetary problems of the Orient accounted for his official if not his artistic presence in London...
...Orient two months ago went two potent newspapermen, friends but rivals. One was Kent Cooper, general manager of Associated Press; the other, Roy Wilson Howard, chairman of the Scripps-Howard newspapers, editor of the New York World-Telegram and onetime president of the Scripps-founded United Press. Arriving in Tokyo together, AP's Cooper and UP's Howard were wined and dined by all bigwigs from Prince Tokugawa down. After that Mr. Cooper visited Osaka. Shanghai, Hongkong. Mr. Howard flew in a military plane to Manchuria, interviewed Japanese and Chinese generals...
...made and lost fortunes at the gaming table, hobnobbed with royalty, became kingpin of a polyglot community in Siberia, escaped to the U. S. ("the Contry of the Gold Devil"), where he pyramided another flimsy fortune, gradually subsided into a broken-down old panhandler in the Orient. When Authoress Benson last heard of him he was in Macao, "where, for the moment, he stands balanced, as though on a steppingstone, about to step into a new life of grand sansation...
Retired. Dr. Shailer Mathews, for 25 years dean of Chicago University's Divinity School, on his 70th birthday. Professor at the Divinity School since 1894, he calls creeds and doctrines so much "fussiness." He will go to the Orient to preach...