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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seeking Annulment. Mrs. Minnie ("Ma") Kennedy, 57, mother of Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson; of her marriage to Rev. Guy Edward Hudson. After the ceremony on June 28 (TIME, July 6), a Mrs. Margaret Newton of Los Angeles, Calif. saw press photographs of the couple, recognized the groom as her legal husband. Last week she filed suit for divorce, while authorities prepared to charge Mr. Hudson with bigamy. Said "Ma" Kennedy at first: "Those other Janes better leave my man alone." Said she later: "I am out of his personal battles. From now on I'm going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 27, 1931 | 7/27/1931 | See Source »

...Christian Endeavorers. Fewer than at many a previous convention, they nevertheless represented an interdenominational organization grown impressively large: 4,000,000 members in 80,000 societies in 105 countries. If any one doubted its continued prestige Christian Endeavor had only to point to its kinetic, strapping president, Rev. Daniel Alfred ("Dan") Poling; its trustee, President Paul Shoup of Southern Pacific Railroad Co.; its active member, President Herbert Hoover who spoke to the convention by radio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIGION: Christian Endeavor at 50 | 7/27/1931 | See Source »

Next most exciting thing to being addressed by the President of the U. S. was to have present during the convention small, motherly Mrs. Harriet Abbott ("Mother") Clark, widow of Rev. Francis Edward Clark who founded Christian Endeavor in Portland, Me. in 1881. Thrilled was she, she said, when President Hoover spoke of this "most enduring monument to the idealism, insight and organizing genius of its founder." Honorary vice president of the society, she listened eagerly at its meetings, let herself be photographed with William Quinn, Chief of San Francisco police. Burly Chief Quinn looked down at Mother Clark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIGION: Christian Endeavor at 50 | 7/27/1931 | See Source »

With the enthusiasm of a dozen Martin Luthers pelting a dozen devils with inkpots, Rev. Dr. Walter A. Maier of Concordia Theological Seminary (St. Louis, Mo.) addressed 4,000 Lutherans last week at a Luther Day celebration at Ocean Grove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Seven Follies | 7/27/1931 | See Source »

Married, Minnie A. ("Ma") Kennedy, 57, evangelist mother of Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson; and Rev. J. E. Hudson, onetime Manhattan businessman; by Rev. J. G. Gay, vice president of the bride's Everlasting Gospel Evangel Church (Olympia, Wash.); on the shores of artificial Lake Sacajawea, Wash. Said she: "The ceremony was performed in God's Great Outdoors . . . with His birds' songs in place of an orchestra." Later on newshawks found "Billy Sunday," her favorite horse, missing from her stables, concluded that she had galloped away on her honeymoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 6, 1931 | 7/6/1931 | See Source »

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