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...Robert Elliott Speer, 59, retired from her 17-year presidency of the National Board of the Y. W. C. A. Wife of the famed Presbyterian leader, Mrs. Speer is mother of Elliott, who is to succeed Dr. Henry Franklin Cutler as principal of Mt. Hermon Boys' School next autumn. Her daughter Margaret teaches English at Peiping's Yenching University. Constance, married and a mother herself, has a doctor husband who studies psychiatry at Johns Hopkins. Son William is a junior at Princeton. Tall, slim, white-haired...
...Baptist church for a jail, then we got a little jail built and they used the church for a dance hall. Finally some fellow came into town one Sunday afternoon and set fire to our two churches. Burnt 'em down. That made me mad, so I built a Presbyterian church to get even. . . . You can put in the paper that I'm the only guy that ever came out of Texas that wasn't a cowbov. High-heeled boots hurt my feet...
...Ralph Cooper Hutchison is tall, dark, one of the youngest college presidents (34) in the U. S. Born in Colorado, he went to Lafayette College (1918), spent seven months in naval aviation, went to Haryard, Pennsylvania, Princeton Theological Seminary. He was ordained in 1922. worked for the Presbyterian Board of Christian Education, missionized in Persia, became dean of the American College in Teheran. This he built from a small high school to an institution of some 800 students. Last year he returned to the U.S. with his wife who had contracted an Asiatic malady. W. & J.'s trustees...
Founder Franklin Simon, no kin to Simple Simon,* has little doubt that his Greenwich venture will succeed. He well remembers his early success in penetrating a residential district. In 1903 he opened a store at Fifth Avenue & 37th Street, next to a Presbyterian church. First year it lost $40,000, second year $28,000. Third year the net profit was $84,000. Success was chiefly due to women's clothes imported from France. Franklin Simon, son of a cigarmaker, had learned the clothing business from Stern Brothers. On buying trips abroad he had been impressed by French styles. Until...
...Presbyterian last fortnight wrote a Mrs. Harry Strachan, telling of missioneering in Latin America: "This new venture needs very special prayer. The [Catholic] priests have sent down to Santa Cruz, where Messrs. Young and Lopez have been working since the end of December, four nuns who are copying exactly our own methods of work. . . . This counter-propaganda will keep many souls out of the Kingdom of Christ. Only prayer can avail...