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...burlesque theatre licenses came up for renewal, Commissioner Moss suddenly summoned producers and entertainers from the city's 14 burlesque houses to his office, asked them to show cause why they should be permitted to continue making a living out of naked women and dirty jokes. Press and pulpit rallied to his support. His Eminence Patrick Cardinal Hayes inveighed against "these disgraceful and pernicious performances," and the Jews and Protestants agreed. President Thomas J. Phillips of the Burlesque Artists Association of the U. S. lost no time in sounding off in defense of the industry. "The first girl...
...ancient planks parted and 70 people dropped 18 feet into the 364- year-old crypt below. While brown-faced Boy Scouts scurried after the injured, helped the unharmed scramble from the pit and calmed the other worshipers in the hot Cathedral, Archbishop Martínez quickly descended from his pulpit, bestowed blessings on the ten worst hurt. The installation then continued as planned...
...cruiser on the lakes of northern Minnesota. An able angler, he became president of the Izaak Walton League of America in 1930, was made president emeritus when his four-year term expired. Fond of publicity, Preston Bradley gets it not only by preaching, reviewing books in his pulpit every Wednesday, making speeches nightly-his schedule for paid appearances extends into next March-but by such activities as serving on Illinois library, prison and school boards. Last year 10,000 Chicagoans signed a petition requesting him to seek the Republican mayoralty nomination to run against Mayor Kelly. Dr. Bradley said...
...three more pocket-sized periodicals, all monthlies, all 25?, all without advertising, were in evidence. First to dandelion onto U. S. newsstands was They Say, a yellow-jacketed, staff-written journal of opinion featuring "the views ... of the audience rather than the orator, of the pews rather than the pulpit." Publisher Herbert Hungerford, 62, onetime American News Co. executive, editor a generation ago of Success, and Editor Ross Duff Whytock, 48, former newshawk for the New York Evening World, hoped to secure their readers' views by offering good pay for good letters...
Professor Kilpatrick is valuable because he is so irritating a part of the school-system; as it writhes under his pricks it may yet fashion a pearl. Thrice blest is Columbia's selection of him to give the series of lectures. It gives him a pulpit for his doctrines and affords his many supporters a chance to hear him teach once more. To an equal extent the University increases its honor and reputation...