Word: revs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chicago's busiest muckraker is the Rev. Elmer Williams (Methodist), 67, husky, hot-tempered publisher of Lightnin' (average circ. 2,500), a lively, often accurate little sheet which for years has lambasted the Chicago Tribune, gangsters, labor racketeers, politicians. But not until last week was Crusader Williams sued for libel. A State's Attorney's investigator and two furriers sued because Lightnin' called them fur racketeers. Acquitted in 20 minutes flat, Gadfly Williams told the Court: "I am not a reformer, I am an informer...
...Sent to a German prison was the Most Rev. Joseph Philippe, Roman Catholic Bishop of Luxembourg. His flock learned the news from Cardinal Kinsley over the British radio...
...Sentenced to ten months in jail were two Presbyterian missionaries in Korea, Dr. De Witt S. Lowe and the Rev. E. Otto DeCamp. The charge: removing Shinto god shrines from the homes of their servants...
Celebrated. By the Rt. Rev. William T. Manning, Protestant Episcopal Bishop of New York: his 20th anniversary as a Bishop; his 50th as a minister; his 75th as a person...
...oratorio version of the chichi-melodious Gertrude Stein-Virgil Thomson opera, Four Saints in Three Acts; Spanish music (with the bagpipers); voodoo dancers and Brazilian Soprano Elsie Houston; a "Jubilee" of gospel-singing Negro quartets (some with three or five members) and the guitar-playing bishop. The bishop, the Rev. Utah Smith, wears paper wings, lately inspired Composer-Critic Thomson to write: "As a stimulator of choric transports he incites the faithful to movements and behavior not very different from those of any true jitterbug. Myself, I found it distinctly pleasant to hear good swing work and to observe...