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Bryan might win in Tennessee but Fundamentalism grew progressively weaker and weaker, after the great "Monkey Trial." Presbyterian Fundamentalists tried in vain to halt a move to liberalize their Church's oldest, richest and most conservative theological seminary, at Princeton. Thereupon they abandoned Princeton, founded a seminary of their own which they called Westminster, after the great Confession of their faith. When the smoke of theological battle lifted and public interest had shifted to other quarters, there emerged a new Fundamentalist leader. Plump-cheeked Dr. John Gresham Machen, born 52 years ago in Baltimore, was not another Bryan...
Died. William Thomas Waggoner, 82, "richest man west of the Mississippi" of a paralytic stroke; at Fort Worth, Tex. He got his start in 1872 when two successive deals in cattle left him with enough money to buy 600,000 acres of land in northern Texas. In 1902 when he found oil on his land he ignored it with the remark: "Damn the oil. I need water for my cattle." Eight years later he uncovered the great North Texas oil field. With a fortune estimated at $100,000,000 he amused himself in later years by building...
...other feature, "The Richest Girl in the World," contains Miriam Hopkins for whom we have always kept a sneaking admiration. This time she finds herself in another pleasant but ineffectual story where mistaken identity brings her suitably to the brink--but just to the brink--of emotional disaster. Nevertheless, that subtle leer in Miss Hopkins voice is still a better bid for seduction than the weapons of most of her contemporaries...
...Urey, 41, is the third U. S. scientist to receive the world's richest prize (about $41,000) in Chemistry.* No award for Chemistry was made last year. The Physics prize will not be awarded this year...
...University of California had the most needy students-1,898. Princeton put itself down for aid to 275. Columbia listed 595; University of Wisconsin, 884; University of Minnesota, 1,158. Harvard turned the Government's offer down flat. Richest university in the land, it needed no Federal handout. Yale's conscience stuck at the required guarantee that each student aided would have to quit college unless the relief funds were given him. Explained Dean Clarence Whittlesey Mendell: "We felt that in signing this we would possibly be making a dishonest statement...