Word: revs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Deputy Rev. John Howard Melish of Brooklyn who helped write the report pointed out that many of its recommendations were quoted from or based on statements of Gerard Swope, Owen D. Young and Supreme Court Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis. Nevertheless, upon Deputy Wickersham's complaint the House of Deputies deleted the House of Bishops' recommendation ("representing the mind of the Church"), said merely that the report was "given careful consideration...
Boston's Library Trustees' shield, designed in 1878 by the late Augustus Saint-Gaudens, has as supporters two nude children (male). On complaints from a group of citizens led by Rev. Michael A. Gearin, Mayor James Michael Curley requested last week that the supporters of the shield graven on the facade of the Mission Hill Public Library should have their pudenda shrouded in granite ribbons. Whether all reproductions of the shield should be similarly ribboned then became a hot argument in Boston...
...commands: the potent Watch & Ward Society, and the Licensing Division of the City of Boston. The Watch & Ward Society was originally an . . organization headed by clergymen who had the co-operation of booksellers in the suppression of erotica. It reached its greatest effectiveness under the leadership of indomitable Rev. Jason Franklin Chase. Reformer Chase died in 1926. The W. & W. received a serious blow when Bishop William Lawrence and several of its directors resigned as a result of the public exposure of the way the society's agents provocateurs had persuaded the proprietor of Cambridge's famed Dunster...
...transfer of the date and the site from the Saturday after Thanksgiving and Fenway Park, where the game was originally scheduled to be held, was approved Saturday after Budget Commissioner Fox had conferred with the Rev. J. H. Donlan, president of Boston College...
...Zambezi Valley, Northern Rhodesia, Rev. Myron Taylor met the missionary's traditional foe. A trapped lion had broken loose; natives were afraid to track it clown. Missionary Taylor got a rifle, advanced upon the lion, fired thrice, missed thrice. The gun jammed. The natives fled. When they returned the lion had eaten Missionary Taylor's hands and one foot, clawed his body bloody. Missionary Taylor died...