Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Another prohibition announcement of last week came from Pierre Samuel Du Pont, retired board chairman of Mr. Ford's competitor, General Motors Corp. Mr. du Pont denied that Prosperity was due to prohibition, claimed the automobile, the radio, had replaced the saloon for recreation. Said he: "The iniquities of the saloon itself have been largely overdrawn. . . . The workingman gets all the spirituous liquor he wants at probably not a greatly increased price...
...last to do so was Dr. Samuel Smith Drury who last week said that "since . . . the nature of this appointment must be of a wholly indeterminate nature I feel no longer impelled to leave work of assured usefulness to accept the post, honorable as it is." By "indeterminate nature" Dr. Drury meant that he could not tell when he would succeed Bishop Garland, which is the in alienable right of all bishop coadjutors when their bishops retire or die. When he was nominated Dr. Drury wrote to Bishop Garland, asked him when he would retire. The Bishop...
...means for the settlement of disputes or conflicts, etc., etc." Super-pledge was longer than super-treaty. The World Alliance for International Friendship Through the Churches was the name under which the 186 signatories placed themselves. Among U. S. signatories were such notables as Bishop James Cannon Jr., Dr. Samuel Parkes Cadman, Bishop James Edward Freeman, Dean William Scarlett. Among famed Britishers were Rabbi Joseph Herman Hertz, Dean William Ralph Inge, Bishop Arthur Foley Winnington Ingram, Randall Thomas Baron Davidson, onetime Archbishop of Canterbury. Among famed U. S. Churchmen who did not sign were such men as Dr. Henry Sloane...
...last meeting of the year the Student Council elected Wallace Russell Harper of Ottumwa, Iowa, to pro-side over its deliberations in the capacity of president during the year 1929-1930. Samuel Lawrence Batchelder '31 of Boston was appointed to take charge of Freshman affairs next year...
...Samuel Emory Thomason, half of Bryan-Thomason Newspaper Publishers, Inc. (TIME, May 20), also testified. He admitted that he had been commissioned by International officials to try to buy many midwest newspapers. The Cleveland Plain Dealer, said Co-Publisher Thomason, was approached by him. It refused an offer of 21 million dollars. The Plain Dealer was not for sale, Mr. Thomason was told. With many another journal he had the same success. But in three newspapers (Chicago Journal, Tampa Tribune, Greensboro, N. C. Record) owned by Bryan-Thomason, International has an interest...