Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Members of the staff of New York's District Attorney Thomas Edmund Dewey, who is gradually emerging into national prominence as a righteous combination of St. George and Charlie Chan, at 3 one morning last week rapped on the door of a shabby apartment in West Philadelphia. "Open up," they said, "this...
...three got hastily into their clothes and were taken to Philadelphia's City Hall. Dixie's bail set a Philadelphia record: $300,000. Next day, as legal haggling about extradition began, detectives let Miss Dare and Mr. Davis have luncheon together. A tray was sent in from a restaurant nearby...
...bulwark of low churchmen in the Episcopal and Anglican churches is the Evangelical Education Society. Last week there arrived in Manhattan a great Anglican evangelical, Rt. Rev. Joseph Wellington Hunkin, 50, Lord Bishop of Truro, scheduled to be chief speaker at the society's 75th anniversary meeting in Philadelphia this week. An able pulpit orator, Dr. Hunkin will spend a month in the U.S., preach in Episcopal churches and seminaries in Detroit, Boston, Washington, Richmond...
Died. Julia Peabody Lewis Morris, 47, wife of Philadelphia Financier Effingham B. Morris Jr. (Girard Trust Co.); when a horse she was riding caught its knee on a fence in mid-jump, somersaulted onto her; near Narcissa...
...love is lost between other Philadelphia art authorities and Dr. Albert Coombs Barnes, inventor of Argyrol, collector and self-appointed gadfly to museums. Last November Dr. Barnes broke a short truce with a bitter horselaugh at Millionaire Joseph Widener for buying, and at the Pennsylvania Museum of Art for accepting, a large, sparse Cézanne which he called inferior (TIME, Nov. 29). Lately the wealthy doctor has formed a queer alliance with the Philadelphia Artists' Union to discomfit attractive Mary Curran, State director of the Federal Art Project...