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...later he went to Flint, Mich, at $15,000. In 1931 Dallas hired him away for $16,500, which he proceeded to earn by saving the city $1,426,000 in operating expenses in the next three years. Last year he went on the Federal payroll as Assistant Di- rector of the Budget. Toledo gets...
...fame rests more upon the hockey players it sends to Harvard, Yale and Princeton than upon its scholarship. Its academic aim has been stated by Arthur Stanwood Pier, its official historian, as "teaching boys to think like other people."* Over this rugged, if not particularly intellectual, school presides as rector and headmaster the Rev. Dr. Samuel Smith Drury. Dr. Drury is a tall, stern man with a powerful, sonorous voice. No mixer, he has little contact with the school's 440 boys until they reach the Sixth Form, when he has them in to Sunday tea. Boys call...
...Elected Bishop of Vermont's 6,000 Episcopal communicants was Rev. Dr. Vedder Van Dyck, vice Rev. Dr. Joseph Wilson Sutton who was offered the post (TIME, Aug. 12) but declined. Chunky, pink-faced Dr. Van Dyck, 46, has been rector of St. Paul's in Burlington since...
...most newspaper readers, it might have remained just one more killing in the city with one of the nation's highest homicide rates (TIME, May 28, 1934), but for the fact that Brenton Root was the son of a respected Episcopal clergyman-Rev. Dr. Benjamin Franklin Root, rector of St. Simon's Church in Chicago, onetime dean of the Cathedral in Albuquerque, N. Mex. Dr. Root calmly announced he forgave his daughter-in-law for killing his son. Last week he publicly interpolated his feelings in a sermon on forgiveness. While his wife was visiting Daughter...
...Bishop Ryan has been a restless Rector. . . . Bishop Ryan's unrest was in no small measure due to the fact that the fields of thought closest to the lives of our people-philosophy, psychology, sociology-seemed most alien to Catholic influence...