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Princeton's Dodds. As a scholar President Dodds is a front-rank authority on municipal government, plebiscites and elections. He was 27 when War came. Turned clown by the Army for poor eyesight, he enlisted in the U. S. Food Administration, served as executive secretary for Pennsylvania. In 1920 he began 13 work-packed years with the National Municipal League. In 1922 the League's President Charles Evans Hughes, then U. S. Secretary of State, sent him to straighten out Nicaragua's messy election system. The Dodds Law which he whipped together in a few months still...
...Pity poor Morgan he cannot pay. He's dead broke he hasn't got a cent...
Enthroned on the epistle side of the altar, the swart Apostolic Delegate looked cool and content. In mitre, gloves, amice, alb and stiff brocaded chasuble, 54-year-old Archbishop Curley perspired heavily but went through the ritual as valiantly as if he had not passed a winter of poor health and fasted 13 hours before the mass. Not so stalwart was many another Catholic in the Stadium. By the time the mass was under way people in the stands were dropping by dozens. By the time Rev. Dr. Peter Keenan Guilday, Catholic University historian, was in the midst...
...many ways Elder Michaux resembles Harlem's Major J. ("Father") Divine (TIME, Aug. 7. et seq.). Each declines to tell his age. Each performs good works among poor Negroes. Each lulls his followers with a catchword (Father Divine's: "Peace, It's Wonderful''). Each preaches a warm, rambling theology. But Elder Michaux makes no claim to divinity. Once a fish peddler in Norfolk, he preached in Hopewell, Va., went to Washington in 1929 to found the Church of God under the Gospel Spreading Association. A small Alexandria radio station, WJSV, began picking up his services...
...Bowery was notorious for two things: vice and thrift. Fifty men and women, butchers, grocers, seamstresses, shoemakers, came in the first night to deposit savings of $2,020 which later were kept in the bank's two tiny leather-covered chests. A mutual savings institution for the poor and downtrodden, Bowery Savings was heavy with the smell of Sunday School and the mission society...