Word: revs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...REV. ALSON J. SMITH...
Edward Weeks of The Atlantic Monthly fortnight ago finished compiling for the Institute of Arts & Sciences a list of the books U. S. readers have liked best in the last 60 years. Easy winner, with no second, is Rev. Charles Monroe Sheldon's In His Steps, a Utopian fantasy of what the world might be like if people lived literally according to Christ's teachings (TIME, Oct. 9). Published in 1899, it has sold 8,000,000* copies, four times as many as its nearest competitor. Because of a flaw in the copyright, Author Sheldon received no royalties...
...Council was formed in 1927. its first aim was not only to set up and prove such neat generalities as the foregoing, but also to arm itself with a body of expert psychological opinion on the influence of the cinema upon minors. The Council's executive director, the Rev. William Harrison Short, got $200,000 from the Payne Fund and started hiring expert researchers. Last year the Council published its findings in a series called Motion Pictures and Youth (Macmillan), of which the 7th fat black volume appeared in November. This winter the M. P. R. C. has been...
Possibly TIME forgot that its Nov. 14, 1932 issue carried the following: ''When Rev. Dr. Enclicott Peabody, headmaster of Groton, discovered that his 184 socialite schoolboys were voting 4-to-1 against Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a 'Grottie' of 1900. he halted their straw poll, ordered politics adjourned...
...sequel Mrs. Belmont announced Mrs. Grace Coolidge ... as honorary vice president. The true significance of all this is that the Rev. William Harrison Short ... is a great casting director...