Word: pioneers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Robert David Carey, 58, Wyoming's ranching First Citizen, Republican Governor (1919-23) & Senator (1930-37), son of its late pioneer Senator Joseph Maull Carey; of heart disease; in Cheyenne...
...preached vigorous sermons in and out of a church where precedent does not allow women the right to preach. An Anglican, she first sermonized under the auspices of a rector who evaded the precedent by announcing : "The service is at an end. Miss Royden will now talk." A pioneer suffragist, Socialist sister of Shipping Tycoon Sir Thomas Royden, she was launched as an active pulpiteer by Dr. Joseph Fort Newton, who in 1917 made her his assistant at London's City Temple, "Cathedral of British Nonconformity." With Canon Percy Dearmer she founded fellowship services at Kensington Town Hall, then...
This outstanding interest in Professor Peabody's life dominated his career as a teacher and his formulation of social ethics as a field of university study was unquestionably a pioneer service. It was his belief as a Christian minister that Christianity, rightly understood and applied, would furnish the best guide for the solution of the many critical problems of family life and social welfare which the changes of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries had brought to the front. While the present trends of constructive work in the direction of social amelioration may be less visibly and consciously inspired by religious...
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...buildings, beach properties. Mused William Randolph Hearst: "Arthur comes to me all the time with some wonderful plan to make money, but when I examine it, I find the profits are to be divided 90% for Arthur and 10% for me." Mr. Brisbane was his boss's publishing pioneer in Washington, where he acquired the Times, then sold it to Hearst, in Milwaukee, where a similar maneuver was executed with the Evening Wisconsin (now the Wisconsin News), and in Chicago, where Arthur Brisbane helped found the American...