Word: revs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Boston-born, Davis Wilson at 20 went to Vermont as an assistant to the attorney general in a crime crusade, was set upon and stabbed by thugs, killed one of them. Later in Washington he was "assistant" for four years to the Rev. Edward Everett Hale, Chaplain of the U. S. Senate. In 1905 he turned up in Philadelphia to fight the Vare machine, became Secretary of an independent Republican group backed by Owen Wister, Owen J. Roberts, and William C. Bullitt, father of the present U. S. Ambassador to Russia. In 1912 with Princeton's late Bill Roper...
...only 65,147 new communicants in the year ending last March 31-31,822 fewer than the year before. The Presbyterian membership list stood at 1,959,923, a decline of 27,368 communicants. All this was reported last week by the church's Stated Clerk, Rev. Dr. Lewis Seymour Mudge...
Ralph B. Murphy, 18, of 611 East Main street, New Albany, Ind.; New Albany High School; son of the Rev. Ralph R. Murphy; was tied for first place in scholarship in his class and was a leader in debating and literary work...
Frank L. Lambert, 17, of 911 North Central avenue, Duluth, Minn.; Central High School; son of the Rev. Blaine Lambert; ranked high in scholarship and was a leader in school activities...
...Rich old Rev. Daniel Joseph Jenkins, in his institution's Northern headquarters in New York's Harlem, scrutinized detailed weekly reports of his bands' doings. Collections in Saratoga, even with five youngsters passing hats and wheedling coins from bystanders, were good only when someone with a kind heart produced a windfall. Last week Daniel Jenkins sent Band No. 2 back to Charleston, where Band No. 1 would rejoin it, playing its way southward by way of Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Richmond and Durham. Daniel Jenkins also is soon returning South. "I ain't got long to stay here," he cackles...