Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although only 37 years of age, Landis has already had a brilliant career as a scholar, legal expert, and government official He was born in Tokio, the son of a Presbyterian missionary. His first education was received there, for he did not come to America until he was 13. In 1917 he entered Princeton, where he was outstanding in both studies and athletics, and after graduation he attended the Harvard Law School from which he was graduated in 1924. He continued his studies and the following year became a doctor of judicial science...
Tried, convicted and suspended by the Presbyterian Church, he defiantly formed his own Presbyterian Church of America...
...Manhattan chambers of New York Supreme Court Justice Samuel I. Rosenman one day last week a man and woman signed their names to the foregoing contract. The woman was Dr. Myrtle Bryan McGraw, 37, child psychologist of Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center's Babies' Hospital, campaigner for brighter and better-trained moppets, famed for her observations of twins Jimmy & Johnny, Margie & Florie, in each pair of which one has been carefully trained and the other raised like any other child (TIME, Sept...
...knows the calls of practically all U. S. birds. Dr. Jones's recipe for a good preacher: "He should get religion like a Methodist; experience it like a Baptist; be sure of it like a Disciple; stick to it like a Lutheran; pay for it like a Presbyterian; conciliate it like a Congregationalist; glorify it like a Jew; be proud of it like an Episcopalian ; practice it like a Christian Scientist; propagate it like a Roman Catholic; work for it like a Salvation Army Lassie; enjoy it like a colored...
...discover Edward Johnson's musical leanings when, at 5, he piped Throw Out the Life Line in a Sunday-school concert. When he was studying law at the University of Western Ontario, he skipped out before the spring examinations, got a job soloing in Manhattan's Brick Presbyterian Church, later earned $700 a week singing Lieut. Niki in Oscar Straus's A Waltz Dream. Money saved therefrom took him to Italy where he studied under Caruso's old teacher Vincenzo Lombardi. Cynical old Lombardi said he would make better progress with an Italian name. Translated into...