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...Gaston Means from the good old Harding days when her husband played poker with the Ohio Gang, decided to hire him to trace the Lindbergh baby. A conference was arranged attended by Captain Emory S. Land, U. S. N., Col. Lindbergh's cousin, and Rev. Francis J. Hurney, pastor of the Church of the Immaculate Conception. Means said that the presence of a cleric in the negotiations would cement the kidnappers' confidence...
...lustful pastor in the late Jeanne Eagels' most successful play Rain was also a "Reverend Davidson." †Literally "conduct unbecoming a sheep herder," overseer or bishop. For Ye were as sheep going astray; but arc now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.-Peter...
...hand (pistol), after shooting her children, Susan, 15, and Raymond Elaine Jr., 10, to death in their sleep; in Montclair, N. J. Reason: homicidal mania growing out of a progressive form of paranoia for which she had been under treatment for several years. Brother of Manhattan's Pastor Harry Emerson Fosdick, Lawyer Fosdick was onetime Under Secretary General of the League of Nations, is now chief almoner to the House of Rockefeller. Died. Albert Henry Vestal, 57, U. S. Representative from the 8th Indiana District since 1917, Republican Whip of the House; of heart disease; in Washington. Congressman Sirovich...
...touch with Col. Lindbergh, whose house is still flooded by several bags of crank mail daily and constant telephone calls. Having failed to get in touch with the lost child's parents, Mr. Curtis sought out two fellow-townsmen connected with the family: Rev. Harold Dobson-Peacock. pastor of the largest Episcopal congregation in the South who used to know the Morrows when he had a church in Mexico City, and Rear Admiral Guy Hamilton Burrage, U. S. N. Retired. It was on Admiral Burrage's Memphis that Col. Lindbergh triumphantly rode home from France after...
...Pennsylvania Museum of Art, cash in hand, had won the New York Life's permission to take the lady to Philadelphia, set her up on a tower in Fairmount Park. At least one Philadelphian was not ready to welcome the "Lady Higher Up." Rev. Mary Hubbert Ellis, pastor of the Primitive Methodist Church, had heard that the Lady was nude. "We are going to have a meeting next Wednesday," said Primitive Methodist Ellis, "to take up complaints about obscene books, nude pictures and also this Diana statue. We are going after the whole situation and we mean business...