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...Publisher Curtis never swum: a crusader's sword. Like himself his publications were simple, eminently respectable, ultra conservative, 100% American. It was Publisher Curtis' idea that the Satevepost, which he bought in 1897 for $1,000 when it had a circulation of 2,000, should preach the romance of honest toil. †Ladies' Home Journal, as nearly everyone knows, was originated and long edited by the publisher's first wife, Louisa Knapp Curtis. She had scoffed at the poor quality of the women's column in Tribune & Farmer, offered to write a better one herself...
Retired. Dr. Shailer Mathews, for 25 years dean of Chicago University's Divinity School, on his 70th birthday. Professor at the Divinity School since 1894, he calls creeds and doctrines so much "fussiness." He will go to the Orient to preach...
...Shaw has forsaken Marx and the Fabian Society and taken up new cudgels; but he is the same humorist. He takes himself no more seriously than he does his readers. He loves to shock people, although there are few things left that can shock them; and he continues to preach. He has taken a new track, but with the same engine...
...capital" hoarded in banks, from which interest or dividends is received by such rascals as Jews; and 2) schaffendes or "creative capital" which is the life blood of German enterprise and therefore good, even though paying interest or dividends. Thanks to this masterly though absurd "distinction," a Hitlerite can preach expropriation of capital to factory hands, then walk into the directors' room and promise protection of capital, remaining all the while "consistent." "National Socialism." the name of the Hitler Party, is another piece of intentional confusion, useful in catching both Nationalist and Socialist votes- votes which had meant exactly...
Bishop David, a stern-faced, side-whiskered churchman, startled high-church Anglicans in 1924 by inviting any and all Nonconformists to preach in his new Liverpool Cathedral. Later, deploring "anything mean or tawdry in music," he vigorously led his congregation in hymn-singing. Last week U. S. radio-owners learned that they would be able to hear Bishop David talk from England March 17, during a series of international and national Lenten broadcasts* sponsored by the New York Protestant Episcopal Missionary Society. This week London's stalwart Bishop Arthur Foley Winnington Ingram leads off. Others: New York...