Word: revs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...confused with his nephew, President James Kelly Giffen of Knoxville College (Tenn.). -In South Africa last September, Missionary Myron Taylor was killed by a lion (TIME, Sept. 28). Rev. John Walter Vinson, Presbyterian missionary in China since 1907, was last week kidnapped, stabbed, decapitated by bandits who had looted his chapel and burned part of the town of Wansjiagieh...
...produced synthetic rubber from acet ylene (product of coal and limestone), salt and water. While the rubber chem ists cheered, the three young du Ponters ? W. H. Carothers, F. B. Downing, Ira Williams ? generously gave most of the credit to a 53-year-old Catholic priest, Rev. Julius Arthur Nieuwland, C.S.C., of Notre Dame University. Father Nieuwland, born a Belgian, at tended Notre Dame and later settled down in South Bend to a life of avowed poverty and chemical research. In 1906 he passed some acetylene into a copper salt mixture and obtained therefrom a strange and terrific...
...Church of England was on the side of the National Government, indiscreetly so. Village parsons, safe in their obscurity, were not more rash in dragging the Church into politics than the Rt. Rev. and Rt. Hon. Arthur Foley Winnington Ingram, Bishop of London. Knowing and hoping that his words would carry weight all over England, he warned the London Diocesan Congress thus: "The credit of the country is so much shaken that if the verdict of the country goes wrong . . . the pound will fall to five shillings within 24 hours, to a shilling within a week and to a penny...
Engaged. Catherine Harriet Foulkes, daughter of Rev. Dr. William Hiram Foulkes, of Newark, N. J., Presbyterian and Y. M. C. A. leader; and Morley K. Price of Norwalk, Ohio...
...Baton Rouge priest, Rt. Rev. Mgr. F. J. Gassier, read Cane Juice with rising indignation. Last fortnight he circulated a mimeographed attack upon it. Excerpts: "Utter ignorance of Creole customs. . . . Did the author perchance pick his 'young ladies' in a bawdy house? . . . Caricature. . . . Unsullied reputation of our Creole maidens. . . . Nauseating. . . . Filthiness. ... A monstrous slander of the purest womanhood to be found in the U. S. . . . Slimy animalism and mental filth. . . . The author might be a handsome young man for aught we know. The skunk also is a beautiful animal...