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...York's Bishop William Thomas Manning had one of the few pious greetings in the exhibition. A small, single square, it said: "Christ Our Incarnate Lord Who was born in Bethlehem, give you His joy and peace this Christmas time." The Church of Christ, Scientist had a card with a picture of its Mother Church in Boston. Between these two was exhibited a card by one Herbert Fields of Paris, which read: "Fifty million Christians can't be wrong...
...Zlatshev, a small Polish town near Lemberg. hurried excited Jews one day last month. They had heard-as had many a Jew throughout Galicia-of a wonderful thing that was happening at their synagog. Other Poles might call the Galician Jews vulgar and ignorant. But they had a saint, pious Pinchas Bloch. He was even now crouching on the synagog steps. Chanting psalms, clutching his long beard, he was praying God to send the Jewish people a Messiah. Until then, Pinchas Bloch would eat no food, move not from the synagog. The Zlatshev Jews prayed with him. whispering softly, watching...
Rockefeller, as Mr. Flynn sees him, is an organizing genius with the soul of a pious bookkeeper. Rockefeller's world has always been extraordinary circumscribed. As a young man it was continued almost exclusively to his produce business--his Sunday school class was almost his only diversion. He applied himself to getting ahead. When in the sixties he went into the oil refinery business, his way went through chaos. He shuddered at the prolific wastes of competition. The solution which he saw was combination and he applied himself to the task of making a combination which would make his business...
...many of us in the ministry talk over our audiences." That was Dr. Joseph Fort Newton's thought when, three weeks ago, he began to syndicate a daily 500-word religious talk called "Everyday Religion," first feature of note since Rev. Dr. Samuel Parkes Cadman went into pious colyumny. Famed liberal preacher, now co-rector of St. James's Protestant Episcopal Church in downtown Philadelphia, Dr. Newton had been solicited by General Manager Monte Bourjaily of United Feature Syndicate, who had heard of him from Editorial Director Malcolm W. Bingay of the Detroit Free Press...
Katharine Drexel's Uncle Anthony J. ("Dandy Tony") became an international figure, fond of expensive yachts. Cousin Margaretta married the impoverished Viscount Maidstone (now Earl of Winchilsea & Nottingham). Cousin Anthony J. Jr. espoused Marjorie Gould, daughter of gay George Jay and niece of another pious socialite, Helen Gould (Mrs. Finley Johnson Shepard). Other Drexels were much in the world. Not so the daughters of Francis Anthony. Katharine read Helen Hunt Jackson's A Century of Dishonor, toured the West with Elizabeth to find out how Indians were cared for. She found things even worse than the book...