Word: revs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last January British-born Rev. Thomas Frederick Rutledge Beale of St. Paul, Minn, went to court seeking U. S. citizenship. He had refused to promise to bear arms for the U. S.-prime requisite-because he believes that the Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact has effectively outlawed war (TIME, Jan. 16). Last week Alien Beale's application was finally refused. He was doubtless aware that in Lima, Ohio last month, Russian-born Professor John Klassen of Bluffton College was granted citizenship upon his promise to serve the U. S. as a noncombatant; that the judge who granted...
...Military Academy at West Point where-a tall, stalwart, one-time Virginia halfback, an able golfer, tennis player and rider-to-hounds-he is much admired and respected. Last week Chaplain Kinsolving got a new post, the deanship of Long Island Cathedral, which has been vacant since Very Rev. George Paull T. Sargent became rector of Manhattan's smart St. Bartholomew's.* Chaplain Kinsolving will take office as soon as the War Department accepts his resignation. West Point's most striking memory of him will likely be a recent one. The sexton hanged himself in the gallery...
...Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick officially denied a widespread Canadian rumor that the basement of his Riverside Church (Manhattan) had been equipped with a bar to be operated as soon as Prohibition was repealed...
...fine new $1,000,000 plant. Last week it got new endowments totaling about $500,000 by absorbing Seabury Divinity School in Faribault, Minn. The student bodies will be combined in Evanston next October, the merged institutions probably named Seabury-Western. Seabury having originally been named for Rt. Rev. Samuel Seabury, first U. S. Episcopal bishop, ancestor of Ward Seabury, Chicago businessman, and Samuel Seabury, New York inquisitor...
Anniversary preacher: Manhattan's Rev. Charles Edward Jefferson, famed for lofty mind and simple heart. A great choir of 500 will sing the hymns of 25 years ago. "Blessed Be the Tie That Binds" will be sung for Founder Clifford Webster Barnes who, now 68 and ailing since last summer, is in Pasadena, Calif, with his 91-year-old mother, a granddaughter of Daniel Webster...