Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Allan Pinkerton, 54, horseracer, poloist, Long Island socialite, president oi Pinkerton's National Detective Agency; as the result of mustard-gassing in the War; at the Presbyterian Hospital, Manhattan. Pinkerton's first got fame before the Civil War when Allan Pinkerton, a bluff Scotch cooper, unearthed & pre-vented a plot to assassinate Lincoln on the way to his first inauguration. That Allan Pinkerton formed for Lincoln the first national secret service. Since then, three Pinkertons have headed the agency, made it largest in the world. Possible next president: Robert Allan Pinkerton (just out of Harvard...
...Axwell Equipment Co. of Pittsburgh, brother of Senator David Aiken Reed of Pennsylvania, son of the late Barrister Reed who was a leading force in welding Carnegie and Morgan steel interests and a partner of the late famed Philander Chase Knox; of pneumonia, at the Presbyterian Hospital, in Manhattan...
...percent in respective percentages over the figure for 1929, when, however, only 4812 students were tabulated. The Hebrew total of 765, or 14.9 percent, an increase of .6 percent over last year's figures, is followed by the Roman Catholic, 726 or 14.1 percent, Congregational, 537 or 10.4 percent: Presbyterian, 469 or 9.1 percent: Methodist, 431 or 8.4 percent, and Unitarian, 364 or 7.1 percent. Each of these groups shows a slight increase in actual number over last year's record...
...great east window of Chicago's Fourth Presbyterian Church has long needed proper furbishing in stained glass. Last week that glass was ready in the Boston studio of Designer Charles J. Connick, who made the east window of Princeton University's Chapel...
There is very little choice for church window themes. In the Fourth Presbyterian's case the near copying of Princeton's east window had the necessity of sentiment. The Chicago window is "in loving memory of Nettie Fowler McCormick, 1835-1923," wife of Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809-84), inventor of the reaping machine, and mother of Cyrus Hall and Harold Fowler McCormick, both long ago Princeton graduates...