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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present interests of the U. S. in establishing the U. S. Antarctic Service is to make available knowledge as to the potential value of those areas of Antarctica to which the U. S. has logical claims...
Regarding Mr. Axelrod's suggestion that ex-Presidents serve on a foreign relations committee [TiME, July 24] and Thomas Toberty's nai've backslap [TiME, Aug. 14], I'd like to present the problem in a more factual manner...
...Alfred K. Hebner, 52, engineer, guided a General Motors subsidiary to a $10,000,000 business, became assistant to General Motors' President Alfred P. Sloan, helped develop the corporation's present budget system, which "made 70 General Motors millionaires in six years." He left General Motors in 1927. Since 1934 he has worked at WPA administration jobs, more recently tried unsuccessfully to sell annuities...
Impersonator of Father Moody will be York Village's present Congregational pastor, the Rev. Walter H. Millinger. Earnest, antiquarian Parson Millinger held his first Father Moody Sunday in 1936 after running across his predecessor's fiery sermon. The idea has spread; now all Maine is digging up old sermons, redelivering them with period fixings. But even Pastor Millinger has yet to re-enact one custom of Father Moody's time: those who did not spend Sunday in church spent Monday in the stocks...
Most specific in his condemnation was British Novelist E. M. Forster: "I cannot believe that Christianity will ever cope with the present world-wide mess, and I think that such influence as it retains in modern society is due to its financial backing rather than to its spiritual appeal. It was a spiritual force once, but the indwelling spirit will have to be restated if it is to calm the waters again, and probably restated in a non-Christian form...