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...first big blast at the U.S.-British oil agreement (TIME, Aug. 21) came last week from Sun Oil's President J. Howard Pew. In an open letter to Chairman Tom Connally of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Pew said his chief objection was the "vagueness" of the language, which could make the agreement "as in nocuous or as vicious as its administrators desire." Suspiciously he hinted that the agreement contains "the possibility of a first step in what might be a carefully laid plan for a superstate cartel." Since a government cartel "is no less reprehensible than a cartel...
...chorister in youth, Candidate Dewey once sang professionally in Manhattan churches and synagogues. During recent years in Manhattan he and Mrs. Dewey attended Fifth Avenue's rich Church of the Heavenly Rest (Episcopal). Now they are members of Albany's St. Peter's Church, occupy pew 56, second row on the right-center aisle. During the winter they go regularly, receive Holy Communion once a month. Entering and leaving church the Deweys find time for considerable friendly handshaking. Says a fellow vestryman: "The Governor is the only lawyer on the vestry, and he is a real help...
...Brickers. Candidate Bricker was brought up as a Congregationalist, his wife as an Episcopalian. For the past twelve years they have been active members of the First Community Church (with members representing 27 sects) in Grandview Heights, a Columbus suburb. They attend services faithfully, have refused a regular pew, sometimes perch on chairs in the adjoining gymnasium when the church auditorium is crowded. The Governor has been a member of the Board of Deacons and the Board of Trustees, and an usher. Mrs. Bricker is active in the Women's Guild, has also been chairman of the Weekday School...
...hall could still be seen the faces of past defeats: Alfred Landon, Henry P. Fletcher, John Hamilton, Joe Pew, Joe Grundy. But, in general, the old men of the party no longer had the power. They did not influence the proceedings; they were dissatisfied with the nomination. But there was nothing they could...
...industry's almost-unanimous opposition to Ickes' plans for an Arabian pipeline (TIME, Dec. 27, et seq.) reached a new high last week. In Dallas, Sun Oil's Vice President James Edgar Pew of Philadelphia flatly called the pipeline an invitation to the next world...