Word: revs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...night, towns and villages of Pennsylvania last week shuddered as a gigantic Voice suddenly bellowed at them from on high. Its volume was as the volume of a political host heard over a hundred massed loudspeakers. Actually it was the voice of one man, very much alone, the Rev. Reginald B. Naugle, an extroverted middle-aged Lutheran preacher...
...Stout), branch offices of European steamship lines. A Manhattan public relations specialist, Hamilton Wright, reported drawing $2,000 a month from Egypt, $1,000 from Czechoslovakia, $1,250 from Italy (some of his advertising had been placed through a firm in which Presidential Son Elliott had been a partner). Rev. Dr. Alexander Cairns of Bloomfield, N. J. deposed that in seven months he had delivered 138 lectures at $25 apiece on behalf of Japan, which also employed Washington Lawyer Frederick Moore at $500 a month. Piquant were the names of Spain's U. S. interpreters: for the Rightists. William...
...into the Secretary of State's office at Lansing, Mich, marched the Rev. James W. Hailwood and Tunis Johnson, both of Grand Rapids, to decide the outcome of their race for Democratic nomination to the House. Each had received 4-533 votes. The Secretary of State said they must draw lots. Rev. Mr. Hailwood delayed the proceedings while he read a statement to the effect that he disapproved of "gambling," therefore would not draw a lot himself, would let a proxy do it for him. His proxy then stepped up, drew out of the hat box for Parson Hailwood...
...Died. Rev. Walter Gerard Summers, S. J., 49, head of Fordham University's department of psychology; of coronary thrombosis; in The Bronx. Father Summers invented a lie detector (psychogal-vanometer), which registers the variation in the minute electrical currents coursing through the body, claimed 100% accuracy for it. Last March, in Queens County Court, N. Y., his lie detector was the first to be accepted as a creditable witness in a New York criminal court...
...journal begins in 1826, when he was teaching school in Connecticut. The first entries are pious and stiff. After he gets involved with the early abolitionists in Boston, marries and comes under the influence of the Rev. Mr. Emerson, he begins to write unselfconsciously and lightly, mixing portraits of his neighbors with reflections on God, literature, teaching, fugitive slaves he sheltered, the punishment of children (he had come to the painful conclusion that his disobedient daughter Louisa was possessed of the devil...