Word: revs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...point: that "business" (or what Philosopher Dewey calls "technological industry") is the dominant characteristic of the present age. As authority for this quasi-philosophical observation, FORTUNE chose the man who has most frequently been called "greatest U. S. philosopher" although many another might have been used, as for example Rev. Henry Sloane Coffin who said (TIME, Oct. 14): "The entire globe is being embraced in a commercial order determined by physical science. . . ."-ED. Scheme Sirs...
...place in U. S. tradition. This fact, however, did not last week deter the voters of the 7th Minnesota District from electing by a two-to-one majority Paul John Kvale (pronounced "Ka-volley") of Benson to the Congressional seat for six years occupied by his father, the Rev. Ole John Kvale, whose charred body was last month found in his burned summer cottage (TIME, Sept. 23). Like his father whom he, the eldest of six sons, served as secretary in Washington, Son Kvale was chosen as a Farmer-Laborite and will be the sole representative of that party...
...Minnie ("Ma") Kennedy, mother of Aimee Semple McPherson, Los Angeles soul-saver, successfully defended a $50,000 suit brought against her by Rev. Harry H. Clark, Seattle divine, for breach of promise, in Seattle. Her plea for nonsuit granted, she was surrounded by crowds of spectators who congratulated her, smacked her hands...
This is the first revision of the Prayer Book since 1892.* The revisory commission, appointed by the General Convention, is headed by the Rt. Rev. Charles Lewis Slattery, Bishop of Massachusetts, who ranks as a moderate liberal. Rumors that John Pierpont Morgan, Senior Warden of St. John's, Locust Valley, L. I., heavy contributor to the diocese of New York, is to pay the publication costs are unfounded. What Mr. Morgan will pay for is a limited edition, on heavy paper, large type, handset, to be distributed to Bishops and deputies to the General Convention...
...first assembly of the reunited Church of Scotland was held in a garage containing some 12,000 chairs. While rain beat upon the roof the position of moderator of the reunited church was voted to Rev. John White, minister of the Barony of Glasgow...