Word: revs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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DREAMY RIVERS-Henry Baerlein- Simon & Schuster ($2.50).† Like Rev. Laurence Sterne, Traveler Henry Baerlein wore rosy spectacles when he went on a journey. But he supplies you with the same kind, so he makes a good companion. Traveler Baerlein speaks foreign languages like a native, and everywhere he went people would drop whatever they were doing to engage him in extended and animated chats. Such was the charm of his tongue or his appearance that a chambermaid in a hotel, a respectable woman with a son, left her job to go walking with him. Other occasional companions were...
...anyone worthy of the greatest of their beneficences, the so-called Nobel Peace Prize. They made up lost time last "week by awarding the Peace Prize twice in succession: for 1929 to Frank Billings Kellogg, onetime janitor, lawyer, onetime U. S. Secretary of State; for 1930 to the Most Rev. Dr. Nathan Lars Olof Jonathan Soderblom, Archbishop of Upsala, primate of the Lutheran Church in Sweden, father of twelve. Each of these distinguished gentlemen will receive $46,430. U. S. newspapers cheered, for Mr. Kellogg is the third U. S. citizen to be raised to the Nobelity this year, together...
Died. Right Rev. Sheldon Munson Griswold, 69, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago; of a heart and liver ailment; in Evanston...
Died. Most Rev. Austin Dowling, 62, Archbishop of St. Paul, head of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Minnesota and the Dakotas, onetime treasurer, chairman of the education department of the National Catholic Welfare Conference; of heart disease; in St. Paul, Minn...
...According to Rev. Jay S. Stowell, publicity director of the Board of Home Missions and Church Extension of the M. E. Church. Said he last week: "San Francisco has 637,000 population. Only 17,000 belong to Protestant churches...