Word: revs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...words, which I have under lined, are of a sinister import. What does the "Junior Vice-Commander" of this organ ization who wrote you mean, if not that the V. of F. W. expect and hope that our country will wage yet another foreign war ? My late husband, the Rev. Jason Parks, was a saintly man devoted to works of peace, and I should not be properly cherishing his mem ory did I not write this letter to you, pro testing with all my might that any organization which proposes to swell its membership with the veterans of future foreign...
...Wheeler is dead. People said that the brains of the Anti-Saloon League died with him last September. Whether that is true or not, the League has not been the same since. Last week, when its bigwigs met in Washington, they could scarcely decide whether to continue the Rev. Dr. Francis Scott McBride as Mr. Wheeler's heir to the title of Superintendent or to substitute Dr. Ernest Hurst Cherrington, who for many a year has been the League's business manager and publisher at Prohibition's birthplace in Westerville, Ohio...
...Rev. Dr. McBride represents the Wheeler tradition of alert, energetic lobbying, vote-swaying, political-threatening. Mr. Cherrington represents a faction of the League which conceives that Wheelerism has been misunderstood in the U. S.; that the League's moneyed lobbying has made the League almost unpopular; that the League's wisest course now is to spend its millions after the fashion of manufacturers of tomato soup and cigarets, on national advertising and an "educational" campaign...
...Rev. J. Frank Norris, fundamentalist extraordinary, pastor of the First Baptist Church, Fort Worth, Tex., returned to national news dispatches last week by a means not even hinted at in his favorite Genesis. Save for local items, Dr. Norris had been out of print since a year ago last summer when he shot and killed one Dexter E. Chipps while the latter was calling on him (TIME, July...
Died. The Rev. Dr. Charles Fletcher Dole, 82, father of Pacific air race sponsor, James Drummond Dole (TIME, Aug. 22, et seq.); at Boston, Mass. While his son grew rich farming good Hawaiian pineapples, the Rev. Dr. Dole penned improving tracts: Early Hebrew Stories, Noble Womanhood, Jesus and the Men about Him, The Religion of a Gentleman, My 80 Years...