Word: revs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Announcing in Manhattan last week that he and Dr. Francis E. ("The Plan") Townsend had joined forces to oust President Roosevelt from office, Rev. Gerald L. K. ("Share-the-Wealth") Smith declared: "Last Saturday night Dr. Townsend and I stood under the historic arch in Valley Forge and vowed to take over the Government...
...good Southern Methodist was the late Author Corra May Harris, of Rydal in the mountains of northern Georgia. Her most famed work, A Circuit Rider's Wife, based upon her early life with her husband, Rev. Lundy Howard Harris, was published serially in the Saturday Evening Post in 1910. An optimistic believer in oldtime simple virtues, Mrs. Harris in 1930 became "Professor of Evil" at Rollins College (Winter Park, Fla.), whose President Hamilton Holt had published much of her early work when he edited the Independent. Author Harris died last year (TIME, Feb. 18, 1935), left the bulk...
...could stay in hotels at $4 a day or a tent colony at $1.50. Those who chose the latter shivered at first, later found it a pleasant enough spot with its Army tents, mess tent and assembly tent which had done circus duty. According to one of its inmates. Rev. Charles Jarvis Harriman of Philadelphia's Episcopal Church of St. James the Less, the camp cost $600 as against preliminary estimates of $4,300. "God guidance is the answer," said Mr. Harriman. "We did not see how we could afford several thousand dollars to get our equipment from large...
...Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Long Island in the Cathedral of the Incarnation at Garden City went Banker J, P. Morgan as a delegate from St. John's of Lattingtown Church in Locust Valley, where he usually takes up the collection. Cornered by photographers with his friend the Rev. William R. Watson, he grumped : "I don't see why they take my picture. They must be a drug on the market...
Speaking at Memorial Day services in St. Margaret's Church, London, Rev. Dr. Bernard Iddings Bell, canon of St. John's Cathedral of Providence, R. I., longtime (1919-33) warden of St. Stephen's College, made headlines by declaring: "Let us not be too sure of our Anglo-American friendship. Unfortunately it is only too likely we may fight one another in the future. . . . America is not English. The average American when he comes to visit Europe finds himself much more at home in Munich, Berlin, Rotterdam or Milan than London. There is little anti-English feeling...