Word: riches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...renegade to Philadelphia's rich Republicans is William Curtis Bok, able young son of the late great Editor Edward Bok, grandson of the late great Publisher Cyrus Herman Kotzschmar Curtis. Three years ago this heir apparent to the soundly pro-GOP Saturday Evening Post shocked his conservative fellow citizens by stumping for the New Deal. Last week they received another jolt when smart, pretty Nellie Lee Holt Bok, onetime religious education director at Missouri's Stephens College for Women, followed her husband into Democratic ranks...
Last week Rev. Dr. Frederic Sydney Fleming, in his annual report as rector of Manhattan's rich old Trinity Parish, bluntly declared: "There is no part of the Church of Christ that has not failed lamentably in its witness and ministry in these recent years-the impotence of the Church is the worst failure." Remedy offered by this lean, ascetic-looking churchman: "I seriously believe the Christian Church would once again bring salvation to the world, and begin to save its own soul, if it had the wisdom and courage to declare a moratorium on preaching for a period...
...Malvern" (Laymen's Weekend Retreat League) purchased a 106-acre estate for $60,000 from Philadelphia's rich Coxe family, now have a fulltime retreat master, Rev. Dr. James W. Gibbons, who conducts 45 sessions a year. President of the League is John J. Sullivan, austere heir to a traction fortune, vice president of Philadelphia's Market Street National Bank and professor of business law at the University of Pennsylvania. Malvern has a mailing list of 6,000 men who have made at least one retreat there. Total attendance last year was 4,132. The secular spadework...
...soon return to Europe. Expressing a facetious wish which the Reserve Board feels will be fulfilled in all seriousness, Governor Norman replied : "I hope not. You can keep it. We had all the trouble digging it out of the ground, but you can keep it. You are too rich over here, but you can keep your gold...
...company with a good many contemporary European novelists, Sigrid Undset has a faculty for making the life of the past appear rich and meaningful in comparison with the involved perplexities of the present. Her three-volume historical romance, Kristin Lavransdatter, pictured a medieval Norway that was brutal and hard, but one in which people fitted into the few simple grooves that society provided and fulfilled their destinies with dramatic symmetry. A prime example of historical fiction, its elaborate documentation artfully grained into the narrative, that book became a best seller (204,000 copies) in the U. S. when...