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...Mississippi, Roscoe Conkling Simmons of Illinois and Robert R. Church of Memphis, Tenn., oldtimers who for years have been accustomed to make a four-year living from the profits of running each Republican campaign. Republican National Chairman John Hamilton, avoiding the worst pitfalls, chose Rev. Mr. Lacey Kirk Williams, parson of the Mt. Olivet Baptist Church in Chicago and president of the Victory Mutual Life Insurance Co.. to head the Republican Negro drive in the West. Unlike most of the other important Negroes in the 1936 campaign, who have more white blood in them than black. Republican Williams...
...purely English problem, tithes have been collected since 786 A.D., mainly to support the Church of England, farmers originally paying a tenth of their crop to the parson. Since 1836 cash payment has been enforced, and in 1936 rural indignation is such that of 5,500 court orders obtained last year to enforce payment of tithes not one was executed. The Tithe Bill, as passed, is to end tithe payments as such by handing to the Church and certain swank "public schools" gilt-edged stock worth $350,000,000 and paying 3 % interest guaranteed by the State. In turn...
South Dakota State School of Mines (Rapid City) Stratosphere Balloonist Orvil A. Anderson ... D.E. Secretary Arthur Barrette Parson of American Institute of Mining & Metallurgical Engineers...
Though it traces its descent back almost 100 years to William ("Parson") Brown-low's famed Tennessee Whig, the Knoxville Journal has had a stormy career. A Republican sheet in Republican East Tennessee, the Journal had its politics spectacularly reversed overnight when swashbuckling Democratic Promoters Luke Lea & Rogers Clark ("Bank on the South") Caldwell bought the paper in 1928. With the collapse of Caldwell's Southern banking and publishing empire (TIME, Nov. 24, 1930), the Journal regained its Republican editorial policy, limped along under the jury-rig of a receivership, with able General Manager Robert H. Clagett keeping...
...behind the camera. A purely objective view may not be misleading but it often leads nowhere. The widespread popularity of such subjective photography as Walter Duranty's I Write As I Please, Vincent Sheean's Personal History, John Gunther's Inside Europe, Negley Parson's The Way of a Transgressor are strong indications that many an individual still regards the cameraman as more important than the camera. Last week such individuals watched with interest the latest subjective newsreel, Edmund Wilson's Travels in Two Democracies. At first sight merely a notebook of scattered impressions...