Word: partnership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...experimental United Church was organized in Manila in 1924. During World War II, the occupying Japanese forced all Protestant bodies to join it for convenience in dealing with them. Though this shotgun partnership dissolved after V-J day, the United Church of Christ in the Philippines was formed again on a more solid footing in 1948, is now the largest purely Protestant body in the country. Its constituents: Presbyterians, Congregationalists, Church of Christ, Evangelical United Brethren and Philippine Methodists - 100,000-odd adults in 790-odd congregations...
Army Hands. The partnership had its beginnings in work with the U.S. Army Engineers. Founder of the firm, the late Theodore Knappen, was a West Pointer who worked as an engineer with the Army's flood-control project on Ohio's Muskingum River in 1935. Working with him were two other civilian engineers, Ernest Tippetts and Gerald McCarthy, who later joined his private firm with Robert Abbett. An ex-Army engineer, Brigadier General James H. Stratton, Knappen's West Point classmate, came in two years before Knappen's death in 1951. Their work is scattered...
Boston's John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co. last week announced one of the biggest percentage returns in insurance history. The award went to Edward L. Long, 22, who set up a building partnership in Massachusetts last May with Charles K. Hammond, 24. Each took out a routine life-insurance policy on the oth er; a few weeks later, Hammond was killed in an auto wreck. On the policy, Long had paid only one premium, totaling exactly $30. His award...
...made what was for him the supreme sacrifice: he sold his Interclub sloop to pay for the engagement ring. Soon he had to make another: the newly weds found that they could not afford to keep up Corny's membership at the yacht club. But by 1924, in partnership with his older brothers in the new firm of Shields & Co., Corny was able to become a Larchmont member again, and resume the winning of Long Island Sound championships...
...evening last week, 15 men and women came to the rectory of the Infant of Prague Church in Jacksonville, N.C. (pop. 3,960) seeking instruction in the Roman Catholic faith. What brought them there was "frontline" evangelism and the part-time partnership of two priests...