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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...people into church. To rekindle themselves and their followers, the Federal Council of Churches sent out a "Preaching Mission" of 70 crack pulpiteers last autumn. Last week, in the wake of the Mission's Manhattan windup (TIME, Dec. 14), the Federal Council held its biennial meeting in Asbury Park...
...Schneider's three-week stay in the U. S., before going back to St. Anton for the start of the semester, was to aggravate New York's skiing neurosis to the point of mania. Owner Horace Stoneham of the New York Giants planned to turn his baseball park into a wintersports paradise by building a ski-slide from the top of the grandstand to the outfield, installing a toboggan run. As an improvement on snow trains, Saks-Fifth Avenue-which last year installed the first of Manhattan's now numerous indoor department-store ski slides-chartered...
...this same McConnell group which founded Mayflower as a logical development from their private syndicate operations. Management of the trust was in the hands of one man-President McConnell-who got handsomely paid if he made money, got nothing if he lost. In Manhattan he lives at the Park Lane Hotel, but he prefers his farm in Virginia, where he likes to hunt the fox. Last June he went to the Republican convention in Cleveland as a Virginia delegate. Even if taxes had not looked so grim, President McConnell might have considered abandoning Mayflower. The profit motive has lost...
...Chicago last week the directors and principal stockholders of Spiegel, May, Stern Co. Inc., mail-order house, sat down in a buff-paneled room a mile west of Comiskey Ball Park to approve three timely measures: 1) a five-for-one split in the company's common stock, creating 1,265,000 shares out of 253,000 now outstanding; 2) an extra dividend of $2 a share on the present common; 3) a change of their corporate name to Spiegel, Inc. Each in its own way, these three acts celebrated a remarkable feat of applied business science...
...Smoke, some 30 other books. Born in Natick, Mass, in 1873, he was taken to California in 1877, entered Stanford at the age of 21, with a job as field collector working on mammals and reptiles. Since then he has collected live animals for the New York Zoological Park, U. S. Nationa Zoological Park, been field collector for the British Museum, U. S. Biological Sur vey, National Museum, traveled in Italy Mexico and France, becoming "the second American to trap in Europe." An early photographer of wild animals, he has pursued them throughout the West especially in the deserts, gathering...