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Murder in the Squire's Pew tells more of robbery and intrigue than of murder; you feel Author Fletcher granted a corpse only out of deference to his readers' taste. When a well-to-do English clergyman discovered that his church had been robbed of some priceless 15th Century church vessels he was naturally upset; when the detectives he sent for found a dead man in the squire's pew he was struck all of a heap. The murderer was tracked and some of the treasure recaptured in a few days, but before the whole truth came out Canon Effingham...
...hoary insitution in its own right. When it was formed John Adams was being boomed for the second U. S. President; the Fourth of July was the 20th anniversary of independence. President of the bank was Thomas James Carroll, 64, also president and general manager of Gorton-Pew Fisheries, wholesalers of salted and canned fish. He left grammar school when his fisherman father was lost...
...every Christian return to his church pew and fill it every service. No absentee can be an evangelist. The absentee pew lord is a curse...
...telephone from Chicago, Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick, whose 51st birthday it was, formally accepted honorary chairmanship. Chairman is Claude Gernade Bowers, editorial writer of Hearst's New York Journal, late of the Evening World, keynoter of the 1928 Democratic national convention. Vice chairmen are Editor Marlen Edwin Pew of Editor & Publisher and Editor Frank Parker Stockbridge of the American Press. The rest of the committee are newspapermen great & small in all parts...
...last time Sergeant-at-Arms Admiral Sir Colin Keppel had to act in an emergency (an Honorable Member was trying to carry off the Mace?TIME, July 28, 1930), his old sword caught his old legs and tripped him neatly as he tried to rise from his little wooden pew. But last week Sir Colin Keppel and his six elderly assistants in full evening dress had plenty of time. Stiff and still stood their quarry. Slowly, majestically they made at John McGovern and laid hands upon...